From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Prologue : when ideas have sex
A better today : the unprecedented present
The collective brain : exchange and specialisation after 200,000 years ago
The manufacture of virtue : barter, trust, and rules after 50,000 years ago
The feeding of the nine billion : farming after 10,000 years ago
The triumph of cities : trade after 5,000 years ago
Escaping Malthus's trap : population after 1200
The release of slaves : energy after 1700
The invention of invention : increasing returns after 1800
Turning points : pessimism after 1900
The two great pessimisms of today : Africa and climate after 2010
The catallaxy : rational optimism about 2100.
