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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Who's who | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Analysis and Assessment | |
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| How to Think About Capitalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Outline of the book | |
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| The capitalist system: a simple definition and some not-so-simple issues arising from it | |
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| Identifying changes in the capitalist system over time | |
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| Capitalism as a System: 'Natural' and 'Free' | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Adam Smith: markets are natural for humans...but not for dogs | |
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| Milton Friedman on markets, freedom and Alka Seltzer | |
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| More from Adam Smith: markets feed us because of self-interest | |
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| Is private property 'natural' as well? | |
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| The State as impartial rule enforcer | |
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| Some states are better rule enforcers than others - and so sometimes capitalism fails | |
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| Capitalism is also the most economically productive system | |
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| Capitalism - the most economically productive system and therefore the 'end of history' | |
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| Does capitalism lead to democracy? | |
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| Capitalism as equal and just | |
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| Capitalism as a friend of the environment | |
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| Capitalism as a System: 'Unjust and 'Unstable' | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Unjust and unstable: Keynes and reformist critics | |
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| Unjust and unstable: Marx and radical critics | |
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| The importance of labour - or why workers are alienated but apes aren't | |
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| Capitalism's contradiction: poverty amidst plenty | |
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| Capitalism and crises | |
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| Capitalism as anti-Nature | |
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| Capitalism and gender inequality | |
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| The capitalist state: to be captured or replaced? | |
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| The capitalist state and education: enforcing the rules of American football or those of the treadmill? | |
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| Empire and Crises 1870-1945 | |
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| Capitalism unfolds | |
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| The curse of capitalism: late nineteenth-century crises | |
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| Overseas expansion as the response to crises | |
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| The curse of capitalism: The Great Depression of the 1930s | |
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| The human cost: riding the rails, searching for work and the crime of vagrancy | |
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| National responses to the Depression: Swedish social democracy, the 'New Deal' in the US and the spread of fascism in Europe | |
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| Post-1945 Capitalism: Variations Across Countries | |
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| National capitalisms | |
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| How capitalisms differ: state-capital-labour relations | |
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| The Anglo-American model: decentralized wage bargaining and stock markets | |
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| The northern European or corporatist model: consensus decision-making and a large welfare state | |
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| Japanese (or East Asian) developmental capitalism: guiding the market and controlling labour | |
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| National varieties of capitalism as rivals | |
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| Varieties of capitalism: a matter of choice or history? | |
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| Varieties of capitalism: Asia, China, Russia and Latin America | |
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| Post-1945 Capitalism: Variations Over Time | |
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| Introduction | |
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| 1945-70: the 'golden age'... hot economies, warm capital-labour relations, and the Cold War | |
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| The 'golden age' in the South: postcolonial capitalist states seek modernity and industrialization | |
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| The 1970s: oil shocks the system...and Keynesian policy responses | |
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| A new international division of labour: the lure of cheap labour in the South | |
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| The 1980s and 1990s: the rise of neoliberalism...capital strikes back | |
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| Neoliberalism in the South: open those doors, be 'market friendly'! | |
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| Global turbulence: financial crises in the 1990s | |
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| 'Crony capitalism' blamed for the Asian crises | |
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| Lessons not learned: The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 | |
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| Global Capitalism | |
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| All the world's a stage... | |
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| Are nation states still important actors? | |
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| The 'globalization weakness the nation state' view | |
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| The 'globaloney' or 'states are still powerful' view | |
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| The 'some states are still powerful' or 'new imperialism' view | |
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| The 'regionalism is more important' view | |
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| As the curtain falls: what drama is unfolding on the capitalist world stage? | |
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| Documents | |
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| Adam Smith and the invisible hand | |
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| Friedman on economic freedom and political freedom | |
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| Marx and Engels on capitalism and class conflict | |
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| Capitalism and class conflict in China today | |
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| Keynes on Casino capitalism | |
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| The formation of the Bretton Woods institutions | |
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| The Washington Concensus | |
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| Wolf's cry for more globalization not less | |
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| World Social Forum Charter of Principles | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |