• How new-style US corporations make their money
• The buying of politicians
• The revolving door between public office and boardroom membership
• How the US State Department pressures governments into signing dubious deals
• Manipulating the market
• Companies securing themselves from risk by monopoly deals with governments to guarantee prices and markets
• Omitting to report off-balance sheet losses
• Hiding profits in tax havens overseas
• Forging improper relationships with auditing firms.

Vijay Prashad takes us into some big questions of our time: the mutual backscratching between politicians and corporate executives; the price paid by us as citizens, taxpayers and employees; and the ways in which US corporations rip off the rest of the world.

Contents
1. Travels on the Continent of Sleaze

• Prophet of Profit
• Enron's Global Crossings
• Rats Who Sleep with the Fishes
• The Ambushing of America And then there's Cheney
   

2. Corporate Terrestrial Conquest

• Powers' Revolutions
• The Era of Import Substitution
• IMF Fundamentalism
• Don't Cry for Enron, Argentina
• Three Aspects of Enron Capitalism
• The Revolving Door
• Bond in the Boardroom
• Monopoly is Our Game
   

3. The Shape of Sins to Come

• Globalization as Social Cannibalism
• Enronism is here to stay, even as Enron is now gone
• The Second Enclosure Movement
• The Water Wars
• The Drug Wars
• The Terror Wars
• Index