Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: History and Economics -- Introduction: The Fundamental Things Apply -- 1 Restless Clio: A Story of the Economic Historians' Assessment of History in Economics -- 2 Schumpeter's Plea for Reasoned History -- 3 Nikolai Kondratiev: A New Approach to History and Statistics -- 4 The Strange Attraction of Tides and Waves -- Conclusions to Part I: A Theory of Reasoned History -- Part II: Successive Industrial Revolutions -- Introduction: Technical Change and Long Waves in Economic Development -- 5 The British Industrial Revolution: The Age of Cotton, Iron, and Water Power -- 6 The Second Kondratiev Wave: The Age of Iron Railways, Steam Power, and Mechanization -- 7 The Third Kondratiev Wave: The Age of Steel, Heavy Engineering, and Electrification -- 8 The Fourth Kondratiev Wave: The Great Depression and the Age of Oil, Automobiles, Motorization, and Mass Production -- 9 The Emergence of a New Techno-economic Paradigm: The Age of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) -- Conclusions to Part II: Recurrent Phenomena of the Long Waves of Capitalist Development -- Epilogue -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.