Contents
The Navigator
ix
chapter one
The World, Words, and Meaning:
Where Truth, Errors, and Lies in Economics and Politics Come from and What to
Do to Make Truth Come First
1
chapter two
How Things Happen:
Economic Processes—What Science, Policy, and Happenstance Have to Do with
Them and Who Set It Up This Way
26
chapter three
A Brief History of the World and What We Can Learn from It:
Why Some Countries Are Wealthy and Others Poor
and Whether It Must Always Be So
40
chapter four
Globalization—and Then What?
Where Globalization Originated and How to Come Out Ahead in the Era of
Worldwide Interdependence
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