Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The Market System

1. The Great Transition
2. Consequences
3. Unintended Consequences

Chapter 2: Nature

Environmental Stress

Causes

Solutions, Solutions?

Costs

Outlook

Chapter 3: Human Nature

1. Social Being
2. Market Being

Stress

Boundary Markers

Chapter 4: Society

Growth

Redundancy

Population Control

Development

Poverty

Urbanization

Homogenization

Unruly Cities

Chapter 5: Politics

The State in Market Society

State and Market

1. The Early Phase
2. The Middle Phase
3. The Late Phase

The Globals

• Mass

Mobility

State and Globals

1. Issues
2. Alliances
3. Evidence of Tension

The Fractal State System

• Adjustment

World Government

The Fractal State

The End of Conventional Politics

Politics as Management

Centralism

The Political Classes

Popular Disenchantment

Durability of Political Concerns

The Mainstream Response

Fiscal Crisis

Moral Crisis and the Crisis of Morale

The Crisis of Governance

Costs of Control

Chapter 6: Culture

1. Privatisation
2. Presuppositions
3. Cognition
4. Moral Disorder

Chapter 7: The Bottom Line

The Rate of Growth

Chapter 8: The Leap to Eternity

Systems and Change

Population

Agents of Change

The Ecological Idea

Progress and Consciousness

The Greatest Transformation

Coda – The Evolution Game (Consciousness v. Extrapolation)

Notes

Index