Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- 1. From the Eighteenth Century to the 1930s: War and Depression -- 2. 1945 to 1975: The Golden Age -- 3. The Legacy of the 1970s: A Crisis of Capitalism -- 4. 1995 to 2005: The New Paradigm -- 5. Our Times: The Great...

Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013 - or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008 - just as the world's financial system went into meltdown? And why was...