Table of Contents
Introduction: Setting the Scene - Cameos of Yesterday 1
Chapter 1 How Did We Get Here? Quantification as a Way of Life 15
Part 1 The Social Transmission of Value
Chapter 2 The Differentiation of Worth - Life in Layers 23
Chapter 3 The Distribution of Worth - You Are What You Earn 34
Chapter 4 The Demonstration of Worth - You Are What You Own 46
Part 2 Capitalism on the Couch
Chapter 5 1st Symptom: Private Lives and Performance Anxiety 59
Chapter 6 2nd Symptom: Power Imbalance - the Sunny Side of the Street 67
Chapter 7 3rd Symptom: Poverty and the Lumpen Proletariat 79
Chapter 8 4th Symptom: Pain - (the Emotional Cost of Recession) 96
Chapter 9 Excursus: Pathology in the City - Tales of the Left Behind 107
Chapter 10 5th Symptom: Performativity and Education 126
Chapter 11 5th Symptom (continued): Performativity - Workplace and Wards 137
Chapter 12 6th Symptom: Predatory Behaviour 148
Part 3 Marching to a Different Drum
Chapter 13 Environments of Value 165
Chapter 14 Rebooting Capitalism 176
Chapter 15 Visions Seen: High-Value Society and the Goals of Politics 197
Postscript: Through Thick and Thin 210
Notes 220
Index 238