Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Foreword ix
6. ONE Introduction 1
7. PART ONE A guide to wealth extraction
8. TWO Three dangerous words: ‘earnings’, ‘investment’ and ‘wealth’ 31
9. THREE Income: earned or unearned? 41
10. FOUR For rent … for what? 49
11. FIVE Interest … for what? or We need to talk about usury 59
12. SIX Profit from production; or Capitalists and rentiers: what’s the difference? 83
13. SEVEN Other ways to skin a cat 97
14. EIGHT Don’t the rich create jobs? And other objections 119
15. PART TWO Putting the rich in context: what determines what people get?
16. NINE To what do we owe our wealth? Our dependence on the commons 137
17. TEN So what determines pay? 151
18. ELEVEN The myth of the level playing field 175
19. PART THREE How the rich got richer: their part in the crisis
20. TWELVE The roots of the crisis 179
21. THIRTEEN Key winners 215
22. FOURTEEN Summing up: the crisis and the return of the rentier 233
23. PART FOUR Rule by the rich, for the rich
24. FIFTEEN How the rule of the rich works 237
25. SIXTEEN Hiding it 255
26. SEVENTEEN Legal corruption: above the law or making the law? 267
27. EIGHTEEN What about philanthropy? 285
28. NINETEEN Class: don’t mention the war! 293
29. PART FIVE Ill-gotten and ill-spent: from consumption to CO₂
30. TWENTY Spending it 301
31. TWENTY-ONE The twist in the tail: global warming trumps everything 319
32. CONCLUSIONS
33. TWENTY-TWO So what now? 341
34. Afterword 367
35. Notes and sources 375
36. Index 427