Introduction : deepening crisis, cause for hope -- Prologue : a personal journey -- pt. I. Cowboys in a spaceship. From hope to crisis -- End of the open frontier -- The growth illusion -- pt. II. Contest for sovereignty. Rise of corporate power in America -- Assault of the corporate libertarians -- Decline of democratic pluralism -- Illusions of the cloud minders -- pt. III. Corporate colonialism. Dreaming of global empires -- Building elite consensus -- Buying out democracy -- Marketing the world -- Eliminating the public interest -- pt. IV. A rogue financial system. The money game -- Predatory finance -- Corporate cannibalism -- Managed competition -- No place for people -- pt. V. Reclaiming our power. The ecological revolution -- The good living -- Agenda for change -- pt. VI. From corporate rule to civil society. Making money, growing poorer -- The living democracy movement -- A civil society -- Epilogue : a story for our time.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-365) and index.