Cover Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Prologue -- 2 The Long Waves of Capitalist Growth -- Business Cycles -- The Long Waves -- Peaks and Troughs -- New Technologies and New Industries -- Modes of Production -- Property Booms -- Leading Cities -- Commentary -- 3 The Problem with Economics -- Supply and Demand -- Mathematical Modelling -- Demand Management -- Monetarism -- The Austrians -- The Inflation Bogey -- Banking Collapses -- The Sub-Prime Mortgage Panic -- New Keynesianism -- Commentary -- 4 Real Economies, Real Places -- Economics is Natural -- Self-Generating Economies -- Real Places: Cities and Regions -- Why Currencies Matter -- Transactions of Decline -- Clusters, Networks and Creative Milieu -- Commentary -- 5 Growth and Decline: Part I – Merchants and Mercantile Capitalism -- Italian City States: Venice and Florence -- The Scottish Burghs -- The Hanseatic League -- Chinese East Coast Cities: Isolation and Trade -- Amsterdam: New Wealth and Old Masters -- Tokyo: The Art of the Floating World -- Lisbon: Rebuilding and Economic Recovery -- Vienna: End of an Empire -- Commentary -- 6 Growth and Decline: Part II – Industrial Capitalism and the New Economy -- Chicago: Depot City -- Copenhagen: Wealth, Design, Wealth -- Industry Clusters: The Third Italy and Damietta -- Boomtowns -- Death of a City -- Prague: The Velvet Revolution -- Manchester: Cottonopolis to Creative Industry -- Commentary -- 7 The New Upwave -- New Work -- What Happens in a Recession -- The Upwave Takes Hold -- Milestones -- Centres of New Prosperity -- Property Booms -- Investments, Savings and Pensions -- Health and Education -- Manners -- Good Societies -- Commentary -- 8 Epilogue -- Summary: A Golden Age -- Governments versus Markets?
1. Prologue -- 2. The long waves of capitalist growth -- 3. The problem with economics -- 4. Real economies, real places -- 5. Growth and decline : pt. I. Merchants and mercantile capitalism -- 6. Growth and decline : pt. II. Industrial capitalism and the new economy -- 7. The new upwave -- 8. Epilogue.
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