CONTENTS

Preface vii

Introduction: Advent of the Modern Economies 1

PART ONE The Experience of the Modern Economy

1 How Modern Economies Got Their Dynamism 19

2 Material Effects of the Modern Economies 41

3 The Experience of Modern Life 55

4 How Modern Economies Formed 77

PART TWO Against the Modern Economy

5 The Lure of Socialism 113

6 The Third Way: Corporatism Right and Left 135

7 Weighing the Rivals on Their Terms 170

8 The Satisfaction of Nations 193

PART THREE Decay and Refounding

9 Markers of Post-1960s Decline 219

10 Understanding the Post-1960s Decline 237

11 The Good Life: Aristotle and the Moderns 268

12 The Good and the Just 289

Epilogue: Regaining the Modern 310

Timeline: Modernism and Modernity 325

Bibliography 337

Acknowledgments 351

Index 353