I: Ideas, their origins, and their implications
What growth is, what growth does
Perspectives from the enlightenment and its roots
Crosscurrents: the age of improvement and beyond
Rising incomes, individual attitudes, and the politics of social change
II: Democracy in America
From Horatio Alger to William Jennings Bryan
From TR to FDR
Great depression, great exception
America to the postwar era
III: Other times, other places: the european democracies
Britain
France
Germany
IV: Development, equality, globalization, and the environment
Economics and politics in the developing world
Virtuous circles, vicious circles
Growth and equality
Growth and the environment
V: Looking forward
Economic policy and economic growth in America.