The making of a public economist -- Building intellectual community -- "You can always tell a Harvard man" -- Recovery -- Keynesian conversion -- Reform I : redistribution -- Reform II : monopoly -- "Regenerated liberalism" -- War -- Peace -- The economy of the post-war world -- The good economy

Prologue: opening the door on Malthus's rollercoaster -- Before Malthus: population, economy and environment in eighteenth century England -- Prophets of perfection: a revolutionary triptych -- The first inconvenient truth: Malthus's essay and the quiet revolution of 1798 -- "Diarrhoea of the...