The Lionel Robbins Lectures -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Economic Growth, Human Welfare, and Inequality -- 1.1 Empirical Evidence: Contesting Claims -- 1.2 Explanations for the Disconnection between Average Income and Happiness -- 1.3 Distributive and Creative Activities -- 1.4 Increasing Inequality and Its Implications -- 1.5 Does Inequality Matter? -- 1.6 Revisiting Basic Frameworks -- 2 Financial Markets: Efficiency, Stability, and Income Distribution -- 2.1 Efficient and Rational Markets: Neoclassical Theories versus Keynes/Minsky Theories -- 2.2 The Asian Crisis of 1997 -- 2.3 The Developed World's Financial Crash of 2007-2009 -- 2.4 Financial Intensity and Income Distribution -- Conclusions -- 3 Economic Freedom, Public Policy, and the Discipline of Economics -- 3.1 Growth as a Decreasingly Important By-Product of Freedom -- 3.2 Implications for Policy -- 3.3 The Discipline of Economics -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Index.