Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1. Inequality: An Introduction -- 2. Class Inequality and the Inequality of Political and Social Power -- 3. Inequality Based on Gender, "Race," Nationalism and Religion -- 4. Big Business and Inequality -- 5. Today's Inequality as Worsened by Consumerism and the Media -- 6. Globalization: Unintended Consequences, Inc. -- 7. Financialization: Las Vegas, Inc. -- 8. Militarism and Inequality -- 9: Inequality's Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers (I) -- Poverty -- Health Care -- 10. Inequality's Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers (II) -- Education -- Housing and the Homeless -- Nutrition and Hunger -- Opportunity -- Dignity, Morale, Self-Respect, and Family Life -- 11. Inequality's Interacting Consequences for the Economy, Democracy and Social Decency -- 12. Comparisons of Inequality and its Treatment Between the US and Western Europe -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.