Preface and acknowledgements.
Introduction: Elites: remembered in capitalism and forgotten by social sciences: Mike Savage (University of Manchester) and Karel Williams (Manchester Business School).

Taking stock of elites: recognising historical changes:.

1. Modes of power and the re-conceptualisation of elites: John Scott (University of Essex).

2. The corporate elite and the transformation of finance capital: a view from Canada: William K. Carroll (University of Victoria).

3. Representing the corporate elite in Britain: capitalist solidarity and capitalist legitimacy: Michael Moran (University of Manchester).

4. Keyser Süze elites: market populism and the politics of institutional change: Paul du Gay (Warwick Business School and Copenhagen Business School).

Money, finance and business elites: dynamics and outcomes: .

5. Capital theory and the dynamics of elite business networks in Britain and France: Charles Harvey (Newcastle University) and Mairi Maclean (Bristol Business School, UWE).

6.Central bankers in the contemporary global field of power: a social space approach: Frederic Lebaron (Uuniversity Picardie-Jules Verne).

7. What do heads of dealing rooms do? The social capital of internal entrepreneurs: Olivier Godechot (CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure).

8. Everything for sale: how non executive directors make a difference: Julie Froud (Manchester Business School), Adam Leaver (Manchester Business School), Gindo Tampubolon (University of Manchester) and Karel Williams (Manchester Business School).

Cultural elites and consumption of elites: .

9. The end of the English cultural elite?: Dave Griffiths (University of Manchester), Andy Miles (University of Manchester) and Mike Savage (University of Manchester).

10. Elite consumption in Britain, 1961-2004: results of a preliminary investigation: Shinobu Majima (Gakushuin University) and Alan Warde (University of Manchester).

11. A culture in common: the cultural consumption of the UK managerial elite: Alan Warde (University of Manchester) and Tony Bennett (The Open University).

12. Eating money and clogging things up: paradoxes of elite mediation in Epirus, north western Greece: Sarah Green (University of Manchester).

Notes on Contributors.

Index.