Preface: How This Book Came About |
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Chapter One The Decay of Power |
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Have You Heard of James Black Jr.? |
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From the Chess Board... to Everything Around Us |
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The Decay of Power: Is It New? Is It True? So What? |
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12 | (3) |
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The Decay of Power: What's at Stake? |
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Chapter Two Making Sense of Power: How It Works and How to Keep It |
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22 | (1) |
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Why Power Shifts---or Stays Steady |
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The Importance of Barriers to Power |
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The Blueprint: Explaining Market Power |
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Barriers to Entry: A Key to Market Power |
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From Barriers to Entry to Barriers to Power |
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Chapter Three How Power Got Big: An Assumption's Unquestioned Rise |
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Max Weber, or Why Size Made Sense |
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How the World Went Weberian |
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42 | (3) |
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The Myth of the Power Elite? |
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Chapter Four How Power Lost Its Edge: The More, Mobility, and Mentality Revolutions |
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52 | (2) |
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The More Revolution: Overwhelming the Means of Control |
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The Mobility Revolution: The End of Captive Audiences |
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The Mentality Revolution: Taking Nothing for Granted Anymore |
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Revolutionary Consequences: Undermining the Barriers to Power |
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Barriers Down: The Opportunity for Micropowers |
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Chapter Five Why Are Landslides, Majorities, and Mandates Endangered Species? |
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The Decay of Power in National Politics |
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From Empires to States: The More Revolution and the Proliferation of Countries |
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From Despots to Democrats |
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From Majorities to Minorities |
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95 | (2) |
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From Governors to Lawyers |
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97 | (3) |
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Hedge Funds and Hacktivists |
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Chapter Six Pentagons Versus Pirates: The Decaying Power of Large Armies |
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The Big Rise of Small Forces |
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The End of the Ultimate Monopoly: The Use of Violence |
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The Decay of Power and the New Rules of War |
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Chapter Seven Whose World Will It Be? Vetoes, Resistance, and Leaks---or Why Geopolitics Is Turning Upside Down |
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135 | (2) |
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If Not Hegemony, Then What? |
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Traditional Power at Bay |
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147 | (2) |
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The New Rules of Geopolitics |
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150 | (2) |
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From Ambassadors to Gongos: The New Emissaries |
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Chapter Eight Business as Unusual: Corporate Dominance Under Siege |
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In the Land of Bosses, Authority, and Hierarchy |
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What Is Globalization Doing to Business Concentration? |
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The Power and Peril of Brands |
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166 | (2) |
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Market Power: The Antidote to Business Insecurity |
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168 | (3) |
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Barriers Are Down, Competition Is Up |
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New Entrants and New Opportunities |
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191 | (2) |
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Chapter Nine Hyper-Competition for Your Soul, Heart, and Brain |
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Religion: The Nine Billion Names of God |
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194 | (6) |
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Labor: New Unions and Nonunions |
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200 | (5) |
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Philanthropy: Putting the Bono in Pro Bono |
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Media: Everyone Reports, Everyone Decides |
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Chapter Ten The Decay of Power: Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? |
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Celebrating the Decay of Power |
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219 | (2) |
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What's Not to Like? The Dangers of Decay |
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221 | (1) |
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Political Paralysis as Collateral Damage of the Decay of Power |
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222 | (2) |
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224 | (1) |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Overdosing on Checks and Balances |
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225 | (2) |
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227 | (6) |
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Chapter Eleven Power Is Decaying: So What? What to Do? |
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233 | (12) |
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234 | (2) |
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Make Life Harder for the "Terrible Simplifiers" |
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236 | (1) |
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237 | (2) |
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Strengthen Political Parties: The Lessons from Occupy Wall Street and Al Qaeda |
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239 | (2) |
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Increase Political Participation |
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241 | (2) |
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The Coming Surge of Political Innovations |
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243 | (2) |
Appendix: Democracy and Political Power |
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245 | (10) |
Acknowledgments |
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255 | (4) |
Notes |
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259 | (20) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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