America in Decline.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Dates, Comments, and Presidents -- Advice on Reading This Book -- Planning Versus Stagflation, 1973-1979 -- To the Lilies of the Field Who Toil Not -- Economics for Sybarites -- Why Economists Disagree -- The Galbraithian Revolution -- Of Sticky Prices and Stinking Fish: The Wage-Price Spiral -- Gunnar Myrdal's Challenge -- Portrait in Oil -- 2074 -- As You Like lt -- The Praise of Folly -- Inflation and Defunct Ideas: President Ford's Economic Summit -- The Economic Consequences of Friedrich A. von Hayek -- The Fear of Planning -- The Planning Bill -- Reply to a Critic of Planning -- Recovery Without Recovery -- The Continued Existence of New York City Is Not Essential to National Security -- Ten Rules for Full Employment Without Inflation -- The Lost Papers of Jack Tanner -- Do Economists Discover Economic Laws or Are They Passed by Congress? -- How to Plan the Economy -- Apologia pro Vita Mea -- The Last Chronicle of Barset -- Advising Carter and Congress -- The Backward Art of Giving Advice -- JKG versus the Angel -- What Is an Incomes Policy All About? -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Searching for Homo sapiens -- Why a Tax-based Incomes Policy Won't Work -- Anniversaries -- Once More, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy -- Is Inflation Inevitable in Post-Keynesian Capitalism? -- When Britain Ran Out of Wood -- Back to Laissez Faire, 1988-1999 -- Thirty Years of Challenge -- The Speaker Speaks -- The Rise and Fall of theNew Deal -- Ownership and Control -- Labor's Future -- What's Wrong with Economists? -- The Good Society and Its Enemies -- Adam Smith: Right and Wrong -- Short Takes: Pleasant and Unpleasant Reviews -- The Labor Movement and Black Ghettos: Two Reviews -- The Short Twentieth Century -- The Theft of Russia.