Rampant Inequality: The Risk to Democracy in America

                                             by Douglas Dowd

                       Table of Contents (as of 12-23-07)

                Preface

                Prologue

Chapter    Title

   1            Inequality: An Introduction

   2            Class Inequality

   3            Inequality Based on Gender, “Race,” Nationalism and Religion

   4            Inequality of Economic and Social Power

   5            Big Business and Inequality

   6            Today’s Inequality as Enhanced by Consumerism and the Media

   7            Today’s Inequality as Enhanced by Globalization and Financialization

   8            Militarism and Inequality

   9            Inequality’s Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers regarding:

Poverty

Health Care

 10            Inequality’s Consequences regarding:

Education

Housing and the Homeless

Nutrition and Hunger

Opportunity

Dignity, Morale, Self-respect, Family Life

 11            Inequality’s Interacting Consequences for the Economy, Democracy, and Social Decency

 12            Comparisons of Inequality and its treatment between the USA, Western Europe, and Past or Present Non-capitalist Nations

 13            At the Turning Point? Left or Right?

                Index