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Index
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION T HE P OWER E LITE ON THE P ROMENADE
CHAPTER 1 E ACH O NE I S O NE IN A M ILLION: M EET THE S UPERCLASS
Each One Is One in a Million
The Corporate Side of the Superclass
Vilfredo Pareto’s Enduring Insight: The 80/20 Rule and the Superclass
A Snapshot of the Superclass
What Does Disproportionate Power Look Like?
What the People Who Have Everything Really Want
Six Central Issues Associated with the Superclass
CHAPTER 2 C ETERIS N ON P ARIBUS: I NEQUALITY, B ACKLASH, AND THE N EW O RDER
Not All Boats Are Lifted
Not a Country But a Country Club
Not Just a Chilean Paradox
And After the Easy Part…
Ceteris Non Paribus: Inequality of Power, Inequality of Wealth
War of the Rich and the Superrich?
The Inequitable Distribution of Luck
Premium Pay in the Executive Suite
Inequality Revisited
CHAPTER 3 L ESSONS OF H ISTORY: T HE R ISE AND F ALL OF E LITES
The Power of History
The Power of Institutions
The Power of Money
The Power of Politics
The Power of Force
The Power of Networks
From the Wanaxes to the Robber Barons: The Rise and Fall of Elites
Stirrings of Democracy: Greece from 2000 to 323 BCE
The Forbidden City Opened from Within: China in the Seventeenth Century
Robber Barons or Inventors of Modernity: America After the Civil War
CHAPTER 4 T HE M ULTINATIONAL M OMENT: W HEN F INANCE AND B USINESS B ECAME THE C ENTER OF I T A LL
The Corporate Cluster Within the Superclass
The Interlinked Corporate Elite
What Global Power Can Do
Energy Elites: A Unique Public- Private Network
From the “Sun King” to the “God Pod”
Global Industry, Global Leadership
CHAPTER 5 G LOBALISTS VS. N ATIONALISTS: P OLITICAL F AULT L INE FOR A N EW C ENTURY
The Power Vacuum
Gangsters for Capitalism?
The Rules Change But the Game Stays the Same: Political Elites Worldwide
Behind the Scenes: The Globalization of the Smoke-Filled Back Room
Tangled Webs and Tottering Institutions
An Informal Affair: The Sovereignty vs. Democracy Trade-Off
The Global Network of Antiglobalists
CHAPTER 6 T HE A GE OF A SYMMETRY: D ECLINE OF THE T ITANS AND THE R ISE OF S HADOW W ARRIORS
The Terrorist Threat in Perspective
The Roots of Global Networks
Green Is Not Just the Color of the Uniforms
Consolidation and Concentration of Military Power
Networks Among Defense Firms
They’re All in a Tiny Room
The Privatization of the Military: A Two-Way Street
Permanent War’s Bottom Line: A Country and an Alliance Beyond All Others
The Fly and the Lion
CHAPTER 7 T HE INFORMATION S UPERCLASS: T HE P OWER OF I DEAS
Fresh and Yet Strangely Familiar
An Ascendant Voice of Change in the Middle East
New Media Monkey-Gland Injections: A Quick Shot of Sizzle
Pro Bono
Saving the World One Idea at a Time
The Reenchantment of the World
Pastor of Partying
The Telemuslim
Dissident Spirituality or Subversive Cult?
The Pragmatic Fanatic
CHAPTER 8 H OW TO B ECOME A M EMBER OF THE S UPERCLASS: M YTH, R EALITY, AND THE P SYCHOPATHOLOGY OF S UCCESS
A Very Short History of Things That Didn’t Really Happen—And Their Very Real Consequences
When Is a Trowel Just a Trowel?
Can It Be Considered an Academic Elite Society If George W. Bush Was a Member?
The “Ex-Presidents’ Club”
The Big Events: Less Than Meets the Eye?
The Clinton Global Initiative and the Power of Global Philanthropy
California’s Superclass Summer Camp
Asian and Latin American “Wannabes” or Harbingers of the Supermeetings of Tomorrow?
How to Become a Member of the Superclass
The Psychopathology of Success
CHAPTER 9 T HE F UTURE OF THE S UPERCLASS —A ND W HAT I T M AY M EAN FOR THE R EST OF U S
In Praise of Our Elites vs. Their Elites
Disproportionate Concentration of Power
Agenda-Setting
Informal Mechanisms of Governance
Elites vs. the Disenfranchised
Elites vs. Women
Elites and Mobility
Institutions vs. Individuals
The Emerging Superclass: A Coming Culture Shock?
Global Governance vs. Global Government
Is a Crisis Inevitable?
On Balance
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
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