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Prologue: when ideas have sex | p. 1 |
A better today: the unprecedented present | p. 11 |
The collective brain: exchange and specialisation after 200,000 years ago | p. 47 |
The manufacture of virtue: barter, trust and rules after 50,000 years ago | p. 85 |
The feeding of the nine billion: farming after 10,000 years ago | p. 121 |
The triumph of cities: trade after 5,000 years ago | p. 157 |
Escaping Malthus's trap: population after 1200 | p. 191 |
The release of slaves: energy after 1700 | p. 213 |
The invention of invention: increasing returns after 1800 | p. 247 |
Turning points: pessimism after 1900 | p. 279 |
The two great pessimisms of today: Africa and climate after 2010 | p. 313 |
The catallaxy: rational optimism about 2100 | p. 349 |
Postscript | p. 361 |
Acknowledgements | p. 365 |
Notes and references | p. 369 |
Index | p. 427 |
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