Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Advent of the Modern Economies 1
5. PART ONE. The Experience of the Modern Economy
6. 1. How Modern Economies Got Their Dynamism 19
7. 2. Material Effects of the Modern Economies 41
8. 3. The Experience of Modern Life 55
9. 4. How Modern Economies Formed 77
10. PART TWO. Against the Modern Economy
11. 5. The Lure of Socialism 113
12. 6. The Third Way: Corporatism Right and Left 135
13. 7. Weighing the Rivals on Their Terms 170
14. 8. The Satisfaction of Nations 193
15. PART THREE. Decay and Refounding
16. 9. Markers of Post-1960s Decline 219
17. 10. Understanding the Post-1960s Decline 237
18. 11. The Good Life: Aristotle and the Moderns 268
19. 12. The Good and the Just 289
20. Epilogue: Regaining the Modern 310
21. Timeline: Modernism and Modernity 325
22. Bibliography 337
23. Acknowledgments 351
24. Index 353