CONTENTS

PROLOGUE. THE AMERICAN STORY

1 Four Morality Tales

2 The Prevailing Versions

3 The New Context

PART ONE. THE MOB AT THE GATES

4 The Boomerang Principle

5 America’s Two Competitors

6 The Rise of the Japanese-American Corporation

7 Locking the Gates

8 Reprise: The Ecology of the World Economy

PART TWO. THE TRIUMPHANT INDIVIDUAL

9 Of Entrepreneurs and Drones

10 Collective Entrepreneurialism

11 The General Theory of Gridlock

12 Triumph Reconsidered

PART THREE. THE BENEVOLENT COMMUNITY

13 The System of Social Benevolence

14 The Limits of Benevolence

15 A Matter of Responsibility

16 The Fable of the Fisherman (Revised)

PART FOUR. THE ROT AT THE TOP

17 The Cycles of Righteous Fulmination

18 The Miasma of Regulation

19 The Mythology of the Market

EPILOGUE. RETELLING THE AMERICAN STORY

20 New Versions, New Visions