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How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

ISBN: 978-0-470-52670-5
Hardcover
256 pages
May 2010
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DISCLOSURE VIII

AUTHOR’S NOTE IX

INTRODUCTION XI

CHAPTER 1 AN IDEA IS BORN 1

CHAPTER 2 SHARING THE WEALTH 13

CHAPTER 3 THE MANY USES OF CREDIT 27

CHAPTER 4 ECONOMIC EXPANSION 37

CHAPTER 5 PROSPERITY LOVES COMPANY 47

CHAPTER 6 PUT IT IN THE VAULT 63

CHAPTER 7 INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRADE 77

CHAPTER 8 A REPUBLIC IS BORN 91

CHAPTER 9 GOVERNMENT GETS CREATIVE 101

CHAPTER 10 SHRINKING FISH 119

CHAPTER 11 A LIFELINE FROM AFAR 129

CHAPTER 12 THE SERVICE SECTOR STEPS UP 141

CHAPTER 13 CLOSING THE FISH WINDOW 153

CHAPTER 14 THE HUT GLUT 161

CHAPTER 15 THE HUT RUT 177

CHAPTER 16 STEPPING ON THE GAS 193

CHAPTER 17 THE FISH HIT THE FAN 209

EPILOGUE 223

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 229

ABOUT THE AUTHORS 231

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR 233

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