| 5 | PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION |
| Chapter I | |
| 7 | EVOLUTION OF CAPITAL AND OF THE CAPITALIST |
| Chapter II | |
| THE VERY RICH | |
| 25 | [introduction.] |
| 25 | 1. American Plutocracy in the 1960s |
| 42 | 2. The Old Fortunes |
| 54 | 3. Replenishment of the Plutocracy |
| 69 | 4. "Diminishing Social Inequality" and "People’s Capitalism" |
| Chapter III | |
| MANAGERS AT THE TOP | |
| 80 | [introduction.] |
| 80 | 1. Social Nature of the Managerial Top Echelon |
| 91 | 2. The Formation of the Managerial Elite |
| 100 | 3. The “Market” of Top Executives |
| 116 | 4. Various Interpretations of the Social Position of Top Management |
| Chapter IV | |
| DEVELOPMENT OF BANK MONOPOLIES AND BANK GROUPS | |
| 135 | [introduction.] |
| 135 | 1. Further Evolution of Capitalist Property |
| 139 | 2. The Bank Monopoly System |
| Chapter V | |
| FINANCE CAPITAL. ITS FORMS AND COMPONENTS | |
| 158 | [introduction.] |
| 160 | 1. Intertwining of Capital or the "Participation System" |
| 171 | 2. Long-Standing Financial Ties |
| 184 | 3. Personal Union |
| 191 | 4. Self-Financing of Industrial Corporations and Their Interconnection with Banking Institutions |
| Chapter VI | |
| FINANCIAL GROUPS | |
| 200 | [introduction.] |
| 201 | 1. The Financial Group as an Economic Category |
| 223 | 2. Regional Concentration of Finance Capital. The Special Role of New York |
| 228 | 3. New York Financial Groups. Dictatorship of the Morgans: Cause of Its Fall |
| 234 | 4. The Morgan Guaranty Trust Group |
| 258 | 5. The Rockefeller Group, the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. |
| 272 | 6. The Group of the First National City Bank of New York, the Fords, Dillon, Read and the Harrimans |
| 292 | 7. Other New York Groups |
| 301 | 8. Regional Financial Groups |
| 317 | 9. Composition of the Financial Oligarchy: a Recapitulation |
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