Section 1: Types of Oligarchies
Chapter I: How Many Forms of Governance There Are and How They Operate
Chapter II: Concerning Oligarchies Transmitted by Tradition, Inheritance, or Law
Chapter III: Concerning Mixed Oligarchies
Chapter IV: Why the Religious Oligarchs of Iran, Subjugated by the US, Rebelled Against Reza Shah Pahlavi, Forcing his Abdication, and Why Such Was Not the Case in Ukraine
Section 2: Details of Acquisition and Management of Organizations
Chapter V: Concerning the Way to Govern Firms and States that Are Accustomed to Operate Under Their Own (By-)Laws
Chapter VI: Concerning New Oligarchies Acquired by Skill
Chapter VII: Concerning New Oligarchies Acquired Either by the Arms of Others or by Good Fortune
Chapter VIII: Concerning Those Who Have Risen to the Oligarchy by Wickedness
Section 3: Oligarchic Forms
Chapter IX: Concerning a Civil Oligarchy
Chapter X: Concerning the Ways That the Strength of Oligarchies Ought to Be Measured
Chapter XI: Concerning Ecclesiastical Oligarchies
Section 4: Managing Assets in Organizations
Chapter XII: How Many Kinds of Assets, Workers, and Soldiery There Are, and Concerning Consultants and Lobbyists
Chapter XIII: Concerning Auxiliaries or Foreign Troops and Assets, and One's Own
Chapter XIV: That Which Concerns the Oligarch on the Subject of the Art of Finance
Section 5: Guidance on Oligarchic Comportment
Chapter XV: Concerning Things for Which All People, and Especially Oligarchs, Are Praised or Blamed
Chapter XVI: Concerning Liberality and Parsimony
Chapter XVII: Concerning Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared
Chapter XVIII: Concerning the Way in Which Oligarchs Should Keep Faith
Chapter XIX: That One Should Avoid Being Despised and Hated
Section 6: The Projects of Oligarchs
Chapter XX: Are Building Programs, Walls, Fortresses, and Other Projects to Which Oligarchs Often Resort Advantageous or Burdensome?
Section 7: Good Offices
Chapter XXI: How an Oligarch Should Conduct Himself in Order to Gain Renown
Chapter XXII: Concerning the Administrators of Oligarchy
Chapter XXIII: How Flatterers Should Be Avoided
Section 8: Risk Management and Marketplace Mentality
Chapter XXIV: Oligarchs Who Have Lost Control of Their Organizations and Networks
Chapter XXV: What Probability Can Effect in Human Affairs, and How to Manage It
Chapter XXVI: An Exhortation to Liberate Nations and Their Citizens from Marketplace Mentality
