"This volume is an attempt to shed light on my family's life-or-death decision of the summer of 1944 and on a grateful immigrant's struggle to earn a Ph. D. in economics in America in the 1950s." - Page [5]

Introduction -- Randolph County -- Oberlin -- Hopkins -- Wesleyan-Oberlin -- Indiana -- Syracuse -- Exile -- The National Civic Federation -- Wisconsin labor history -- Multitasking -- The Wisconsin idea -- The Commission on Industrial Relations -- Shattered illusions -- The dominant class --...

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