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What is The 1% and the Rest of Us about?

Front Cover 1 About the Author 2 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Tables and Figures 7 Dedication 9 Introduction: Towards a Global Political Economy of the 1% 10 Political Economy and the Elite 13 The Main Arguments and Structure of the Book 21 1: The Unusual Suspects: Identifying the Global 1% 30 The Professor and the Prince 30 Income and Wealth: A Primer 31 A Taxonomy of the Global 1% 35 Holding Wealth 44 The Geography of the 1% 49 Billionaireville 52 The Rest of Us 54 2: Capital as Power and the 1% 57 A Brief Genealogy of the Term ‘Capital’ 60 Corporate America and the Rise of Capitalisation 66 Capital as Power 70 The Capitalist Mode of Power 75 The Architecture of Capitalisation 81 3: Wealth, Money and Power 112 A Brief History of Wealth before Political Economy 113 Mercantilism 122 The Birth of Classical Political Economy 125 The General Theory of Money, Energy and Power 145 4: Differential Consumption: The Rise of Plutonomy 151 The Global Plutonomy 152 Conspicuous Consumption in the First Gilded Age 155 Differential Consumption in the New Gilded Age 160 ‘The Rich are Destroying the Earth’ 170 5: Society versus the Superman Theory of Wealth 174 F

Author

Tim Di Muzio

Language

EN