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Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

PROLOGUE When ideas have sex

CHAPTER 1 A better today: the unprecedented present

CHAPTER 2 The collective brain: exchange and specialisation after 200,000 years ago

CHAPTER 3 The manufacture of virtue: barter, trust and rules after 50,000 years ago

CHAPTER 4 The feeding of the nine billion: farming after 10,000 years ago

CHAPTER 5 The triumph of cities: trade after 5,000 years ago

CHAPTER 6 Escaping Malthus’s trap: population after 1200

CHAPTER 7 The release of slaves: energy after 1700

CHAPTER 8 The invention of invention: increasing returns after 1800

CHAPTER 9 Turning points: pessimism after 1900

CHAPTER 10 The two great pessimisms of today: Africa and climate after 2010

CHAPTER 11 The catallaxy: rational optimism about 2100

NOTES AND REFERENCES

INDEX

Acknowledgements

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