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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 | |