CONTENTS

Introductions

1    “One Shekel of Your Private Silver”

2    The Pirates of Phoenicia

3    The Reluctant Romans

4    An Enterprising Faith

5    Flying Money and Capitalist Monks

6    Western Europe and a “New World” of Profit

7    Captains of the Revolution

8    The Land of (Entrepreneurial) Opportunity

9    Flattening the World and Colonizing Space

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index