Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1 The New Economy -- Natural Growth -- The Institutions of Wealth -- Real Money -- Good Globalization -- PART 2 The American Laboratory -- The Production of Ideas -- The Business of Education -- Rationality Everywhere -- The Limits of Pure Reason -- PART 3 The Convergence of Nations -- The End of Mass Poverty -- Asian Tigers -- India: A Market Revolution -- In Brazil, the Future Is Now -- PART 4 Coming Outof Socialism -- The Great Transition -- The Russian Addiction -- The Truth about China -- The Turkish March -- PART 5 Cases of Decline -- Europe Versus the United States -- Setting Sun -- Will the Greenhouse Effect Leave Us Broke? -- In Search of a Consensus -- Acknowledgments -- Index.