Table of Contents
(as of 12.16.2023)
PREFACE
About the Author
Central Purpose
The Research and Writing Process
Approaches to Reading the Book
Understanding Charts and Graphs
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE – A LITTLE CONTEXT
Escaping the Silos
Orthodox Economics
Integrating The Silos
The Rich and Corporations
CHAPTER TWO – CAPITALISM DEFINED
What is capitalism? – our politics’ rhetoric
Capitalism defined
What is an economy for? – our view
CHAPTER THREE – THE NEOLIBERAL WEALTH SUPREMACY STRATEGY
The rich and corporations understand how capitalism works
About Neoliberalism
Neoliberal Wealth Supremacy – the most successful social movement of the last 100 years
CHAPTER FOUR – CAPITALISM – KEY FEATURES
Some Context
The role of the Scientific Revolution
The Great Divide
Free Markets?
Capitalists Capture Government and Politics
Regulatory Capture
Capitalism produces precarity – persistent insecurity
The capitalist system is unstable
Capitalism operates through unequal power relationships.
Private property and rent
Capitalism tends towards monopoly.
Capitalism concentrates wealth and income.
Anonymous Capitalism
Capitalism controls investment
Capitalism features ubiquitous use of “external” costs.
Capitalism works on a short investment time horizon.
Capitalism does not provide for housing, healthcare, education, and other family needs
Capitalism distorts, changes, and creates human demand and consumption.
Misapplication of markets
Capitalism disaggregates the production of goods and services.
Global Capitalism – Globalization
Capitalism requires endless growth on a planet with finite resources.
Is capitalism a system?
Slavery, colonialism, and the use of state power.
CHAPTER FIVE – FINANCIALIZATION, MONEY, AND THE FINANCIAL SECTOR
Financialization – from production to extraction
What Is the Financial Sector?
What Is Money and How Does It Work?
Modern Monetary Theory
CHAPTER SIX – HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO AMERICAN VALUES?
My children will be better off than me
Hard work pays off – social mobility
Everyone is equal
Your life is in your own hands – the land of opportunity
Justice and the Rule of Law
CHAPTER SEVEN – PRECARITY – HOW WE EXPERIENCE CAPITALISM.
Labor Precarity
Housing Precarity
Transportation
Food Precarity
Education Precarity
Precarity for Women
Health Precarity
Precarity of Time
Aging and Retirement Precarity
Mental Health Precarity
Attention Precarity
Is Precarity a Global Phenomenon?
CHAPTER EIGHT – IN CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX