1. The Calm before the Storm 13
2. What Makes Capitalism Tick 21
3. Capitalist Economies Are Prone to Crises 27
4. Mature Capitalism's Concentration of Production and Slow Growth 33
5. Can the Tendency to Slow Growth Be Overcome? 37
6. Economic Stagnation Sets in Following the Second World War 41
7. Neoliberalism 47
8. The Financial Explosion: Introduction 55
9. How Did it Happen? 59
10. The Explosion of Debt 75
11. The Great Unraveling 83
12. The Government to the Rescue? 89
13. Summary and Conclusions 105
A Timeline of the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession 115
