TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by Mark Crispin Miller

Introduction: Profits before People

Part I: A Middle Class Requires Democracy
Chapter 1 There Is No “Free” Market
Chapter 2 How We the People Create the Middle Class
Chapter 3 The Rise of the Corporatocracy

Part II: Democracy Requires a Middle Class
Chapter 4 The Myth of the Greedy Founders
Chapter 5 Thomas Paine against the Freeloaders
Chapter 6 Taxation without Representation
Chapter 7 James Madison versus the Business of War
Chapter 8 FDR and the Economic Royalists

Part III: Governing for We the People
Chapter 9 Too Important for the Private Sector
Chapter 10 Knowledge Is Power
Chapter 11 Medicine for Health, Not for Profit
Chapter 12 The Truth about the Trust Fund
Chapter 13 Setting the Rules of the Game
Chapter 14 The Illegal Employer Problem
Chapter 15 Leveling the Playing Field

Conclusion: The Road to Victory

Afterword by Greg Palast

Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author