Contents

pp v-v

List of figures

pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Foreword by Richard Wilkinson

pp ix-xii

one - Introduction

pp 1-30

Part One - A guide to wealth extraction

pp 31-32

two - Three dangerous words: ‘earnings’, ‘investment’ and ‘wealth’

pp 33-40

three - Income: earned or unearned?

pp 41-48

four - For rent … for what?

pp 49-58

five - Interest … for what? or We need to talk about usury

pp 59-82

six - Profit from production; or Capitalists and rentiers: what’s the difference?

pp 83-96

seven - Other ways to skin a cat

pp 97-118

eight - Don’t the rich create jobs? And other objections

pp 119-136

Part Two - Putting the rich in context: what determines what people get?

pp 137-138

nine - To what do we owe our wealth? Our dependence on the commons

pp 139-150

ten - So what determines pay?

pp 151-174

eleven - The myth of the level playing field

pp 175-178

Part Three - How the rich got richer: their part in the crisis

pp 179-180

twelve - The roots of the crisis

pp 181-214

thirteen - Key winners

pp 215-232

fourteen - Summing up: the crisis and the return of the rentier

pp 233-236

Part Four - Rule by the rich, for the rich

pp 237-238

fifteen - How the rule of the rich works

pp 239-254

sixteen - Hiding it

pp 255-266

seventeen - Legal corruption: above the law or making the law?

pp 267-284

eighteen - What about philanthropy?

pp 285-292

nineteen - Class: don’t mention the war!

pp 293-300

Part Five - Ill-gotten and ill-spent: from consumption to CO2

pp 301-302

twenty - Spending it

pp 303-318