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| Introduction | |
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| Economic Succession | |
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| The Missing Link | |
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| The "C"-Word | |
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| This Book | |
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| Disclaimer | |
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| Structural Arguments | |
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| Growing Up Global | |
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| A New World Order | |
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| From Yonkers to Wharton | |
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| New Dawn for Business | |
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| Robert McNamara, Enforcer | |
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| Forty Years Later | |
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| The Copenhagen Conundrum | |
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| Carbon Debt | |
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| Cochabamba, Bolivia | |
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| The Canc�n Conundrum | |
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| The Morales Conundrum | |
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| The Fatal Flaws of Capitalism | |
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| Intrinsic Amorality & Corporate Schizophrenia | |
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| Is Greed Good? | |
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| Everyday Life in Advertising | |
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| Are Corporations People? | |
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| Corporations are Machines | |
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| Intrinsic Inequities of Corporate Structure | |
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| Eight Intrinsic Inequities of Corporate Structure | |
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| Profits from Business Operation | |
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| Profits from Capitalization of the Public Commons | |
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| CEO Megasalaries & Bonuses | |
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| Stock Payments & Dividends | |
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| Invested Earnings: The Multiplier Effect | |
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| Wage Repression of Employees | |
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| The "Worker Productivity" Scam | |
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| Cashing Out: The Sale of Company Assets | |
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| The Illusion of Corporate "Efficiency" | |
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| Endless Growth on a Finite Planet | |
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| Ecosystem Into Economy | |
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| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | |
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| What's Left Out of GDP? | |
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| Virtual Growth | |
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| "Planetary Boundaries" | |
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| Resource Shrinkage on a Finite Planet | |
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| Financial Speculation in Food Supplies | |
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| Privatization of Water | |
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| Peak Species & Peak Beauty | |
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| Earth Island | |
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| Fundamental Questions | |
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| Searching for Growth: Desperate Measures | |
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| Seven Explorations in Growing Growth | |
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| Shifting from Real Growth to Virtual | |
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| Creating "New Resources"-Privatizing the Commons | |
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| Expanding the Military Economy | |
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| Green Capitalism | |
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| Search for Green Energy | |
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| Creative Destruction | |
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| Techno-Utopianism & New Nature | |
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| Propensity Toward War | |
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| War as Economic Strategy | |
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| The Stealth Economy | |
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| Doing the Numbers | |
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| Commercial Arms Trade | |
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| Military Keynesianism | |
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| F-35 Lightning II Fighter: $325 billion (Lockheed Martin Corporation) | |
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| Gerald Ford-Class Supercarrier: $120 billion (Northrop Grumman Corporation) | |
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| Future Combat System: $340 billion (Boeing and SAIC) | |
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| Littoral Combat Ship: $38 billion (Austal USA and Lockheed Martin) | |
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| U.S. Military Bases | |
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| Asia Pacific | |
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| Western Europe | |
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| Middle East | |
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| Africa | |
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| South America | |
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| Focus on the Pacific | |
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| "Comparative Advantage" of War | |
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| Privatization of Democracy | |
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| Rule by the Rich | |
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| Doing the Numbers | |
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| What Is a Billion Dollars? | |
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| The "Problem" of Surplus Capital | |
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| Investments in Government | |
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| Politicians for Sale | |
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| Koch Brothers: Role Models for Neofeudal Expression | |
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| Democracy? | |
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| Privatization of Consciousness | |
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| Who Needs Advertising? | |
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| Living Inside Media | |
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| Advertising to Children | |
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| Global Reach | |
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| The Powers of Received Images | |
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| Are You Immune? | |
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| Is Television Real? | |
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| "Truth" in Advertising | |
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| Virtual Reality | |
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| Global Control | |
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| AOL-Time Warner | |
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| Disney | |
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| The News Corporation | |
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| Crisis Point | |
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| Capitalism or Happiness | |
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| Laissez-Faire | |
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| Doing the Numbers | |
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| Consequences of Inequity | |
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| Economics of Happiness | |
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| Sufficiency | |
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| Summaries & Afterthoughts | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Which Way Out? | |
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| Four Megashifts Toward a New Economics | |
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| Nature Comes First | |
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| The Primacy of Scale: Not Globalization, Localization | |
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| Experiments in Corporate Values and Structure | |
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| Hybrid Economics | |
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| Uncharted Territory | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Organizations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |