Preface

Part 1: Welcome to America Today

Chapter 1: The Best of Times

Chapter 2: Time to Time Travel

Chapter 3: Falling into the Malthusian Trap

Chapter 4: The Last Hero's Lesson

Chapter 5: The Yoda of Economics

Chapter 6: Monopoly Wars

Chapter 7: The Force Can't Raise a Government

Chapter 8: The Jedi Can't Fight Poverty

Chapter 9: Drifting Towards Collectivism?

Chapter 10: From M*A*S*H* to K-pop

Part 2: Cool Origin Stories

Chapter 11: Stumbling on History

Chapter 12: Everybody Loves a Winner!

Chapter 13: A Bond Villain Gives Us Human Rights

Chapter 14: We Owe It All To Love

Chapter 15: Everybody Wants to Rule England

Chapter 16: Money Out of Thin Air

Chapter 17: A Silly Discovery Story

Chapter 18: The Quest for Inflation

Part 3: The First Steps on the Road to Inclusiveness

Chapter 19: Coming to America

Chapter 20: Love on the Rocks

Chapter 21: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Chapter 22: Stumbling on Government

Chapter 23: The Founding Fathers Were Not a Fellowship

Chapter 24: The Wizard of Oz Couldn't Save the American Farmer

Chapter 25: Wonder Woman Is Not a New Kind of Woman

Chapter 26: Learning to Let Women Lead

Chapter 27: John Adams Should Have Listened to Abagail Adams

Chapter 28: Slowly Closing the Gender-Gaps

Part 4: Money, Money, Money

Chapter 29: To Boldly Go Where No Money Has Gone Before

Chapter 30: The American Revolution Sequel Kills the Franchise

Chapter 31: Money Growing on Trees

Chapter 32: Sometimes You Need More than a Superhero

Chapter 33: Money Can Work it Out

Chapter 34: Did Hydra Cause the Great Depression?

Chapter 35: Very Serious People Get it Very Seriously Wrong

Chapter 36: The Revolutionary Mr. Keynes

Chapter 37: Bringing Balance to the Force Part 5: And the Road Continues

Chapter 38: The Principal Problem in Economics

Chapter 39: The Promise of Plymouth Rock

Chapter 40: The Value of Free People