Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- The Misfortunes of Prosperity -- Slowdown in Growth -- Jobs and Unemp oyment -- Keynes and His Shad w -- The New Monetarist Orthodoxy -- Economic and Political ycles -- The Two Crises of Keynesianism -- Appendix A -- The History of Wealth...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Why the West? -- 1 Genesis -- 2 The Birth of the Modern World -- 3 Malthus' Law -- 4 Unbound Prometheus -- 5 Perpetual Growth -- II Prosperity and Depression -- 6 The Economic Consequences of the War -- 7 The Great Crisis and Its Lessons -- 8 The Golden Age...