CONTENTS
Acknowledgments.....xi --
Prologue: A Personal Journey.....1 --
I. Cowboys in a Spaceship.....15 --
1. From Hope to Crisis.....17 --
2. End of the Open Frontier.....25 --
3. The Growth Illusion.....37 --
II. Contest for Sovereignty.....51 --
4. Rise of Corporate Power in the America.....53 --
5. Assault of the Corporate Libertarians.....69 --
6. Decline of Democratic Pluralism.....87 --
7. Illusions of the Cloud Minders.....103 --
III. Corporate Colonialism.....119 --
8. Dreaming of Global Empires.....121 --
9. Building Elite Consensus...133 --
10. Buying Out Democracy.....141 --
11. Marketing the World.....149 --
12. Adjusting the Poor.....159 --
13. Guaranteeing Corporate Rights.....173 --
IV. Rogue Financial System.....183 --
14. The Money Game.....185 --
15. Predatory Finance.....195 --
16. Corporate Cannibalism.....207 --
17. Managed Competition.....215 --
V. No Place for People.....227 --
18. Race to the Bottom.....229 --
19. The End of Inefficiency.....239 --
20. People with No Place.....249 --
VI. Reclaiming Our Power.....259 --
21. The Ecological Revolution.....261 --
22. Good Living.....277 --
23. An Awakened Civil Society.....293 --
24. Agenda for Change.....307 --
Epilogue: A Choice for Life.....325 --
Appendix: The People's Earth Declaration: A Proactive Agenda for the Future.....329 --
Notes.....335 --
Index.....361 --
About the Author.....375
[from Berrett-Koehler Publishers and Kumarian Press ed. (1996)]