Pt. I. Ideas, their origins, and their implications
1. What growth is, what growth does
2. Perspectives from the Enlightenment and its roots
3. Crosscurrents : the age of improvement and beyond
4. Rising incomes, individual attitudes, and the politics of social change
Pt. II. Democracy in America
5. From Horatio Alger to William Jennings Bryan
7. Great Depression, great exception
8. America in the postwar era
Pt. III. Other times, other places : the European democracies
Pt. IV. Development, equality, globalization, and the environment
12. Economics and politics in the developing world
13. Virtuous circles, vicious circles
15. Growth and the environment
16. Economic policy and economic growth in America.
