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...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE FINANCIAL CRISES OF THE 1990S WERE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF THE 1980S -- III. DEBT CRISES OF THE 1990S: A TAXONOMY -- IV. CONFIDENCE CRISIS AND CRISIS OF THE FUNDAMENTALS: A THEORETICAL BENCHMARK -- V. OUR POLICY IMPLICATIONS: COLLECTIVE ACTION...