Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich : How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Poverty Is on the Run -- 1. Liberalism Liberated -- 2. It's the End of the World as They Knew It, and You Should Feel Pretty Good -- 3. Nostalgia and Pessimism Worsen Poverty -- 4. Under Liberalism the Formerly Poor Can Flourish Ethically and Spiritually -- 5. Consider the Possibility That Your Doubts Might Be Mistaken -- 6. Pessimism Has Been since 1800 a Rotten Predictor -- 7. Even about the Environment -- 8. In Fact, None of the Seven Old Pessimisms Makes a Lot of Sense -- 9. Nor Do the Three New Ones -- 10. So to Get Better, the World Had Better Keep Its Ethical Wits about It -- 11. And True Liberalism Celebrates a Life Beyond Wealth -- Part II. Enrichment Didn't Come for the Reasons You Imagine -- 12. Liberal Ideas, Not European Horrors or Heroism, Explain the Great Enrichment -- 13. Liberalism Supported Innovism and the Profit Test -- 14. The Great Enrichment Did Not Come from Resources or Railways or Property Rights -- 15. Nor Thrift or "Capitalism" -- 16. Schooling and Science Were Not the Fairy Dust -- 17. It Wasn't Imperialism -- 18. Nor Slavery -- 19. Nor Wage Slavery Ended by Unions and Regulation -- Part III. It Came Because Ideas, Ethics, Rhetoric, and Ideology Changed -- 20. The Talk and the Deals Changed in Northwestern Europe -- 21. That Is, Ethics and Rhetoric Changed -- 22. "Honest" Shows the Change -- 23. And "Happiness" Itself Changed -- 24. The Change in Valuation Showed in English Plays, Poems, and Novels -- Part IV. The Causes of the Causes Were Not Racial or Ancient -- 25. Happy Accidents Led to the Revaluation -- 26. And Then Old Adam Smith Revealed/The Virtues of the Bourgeois Deal -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.