While the Occupy movement faces many strategic and organizational challenges, one of its major accomplishments has been to draw global attention to the massive disparity of income, wealth and privilege held by 1% of the population in nations across the world. In The 1% and the Rest of Us, Tim Di Muzio explores what it means to be part of a socio-economic order presided over by the super-rich and their political servants.
Incorporating provocative and original arguments about philanthropy, social wealth and the political role of the super-rich, Di Muzio reveals how the 1% are creating a world unto themselves in which the accumulation of ever more money is really a symbolic drive to control society and the natural environment.

Tim Di Muzio is senior lecturer in international relations and political economy at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He currently edits the journal Review of Capital as Power.

Introduction: Towards a Global Political Economy of the 1%
1. The Unusual Suspects: Identifying the Global 1%
2. Capital as Power and the 1%
3. Wealth, Money and Power
4. Differential Consumption: The Rise of Plutonomy
5. Society vs. the Superman Theory of Wealth
6. The Party of the 99%: Resistance and Future Prospects