1.1 A Worldly View
1.2 Adam Smith and Societal Order
1.3 On Bankruptcy Theory
1.4 Adam Smith and Public Policy
1.5 Self-Interest and Self-Sacrifice

2.1 Self-Help in the Self-Help/Motivational Literature
2.2 Samuel Smiles and the Feminist Movement
2.3 Samuel Smiles and Laissez-Faire Capitalism
2.4 Some Misinterpretations of Smiles

3.1 Epistemological Objectivism versus Economic Subjectivism
3.2 The Roots of Philosophical Subjectivism
3.3 Reality, Deceit, and Philosophical Fraud
3.4 Jeff Skilling as a Nietzschean Great Man
3.5 Selfishness versus Altruism Revisited
3.6 Critics of Objectivism
3.7 Objectivism in the History of Philosophy

4.1 Equilibrium versus Market Process
4.2 Entrepreneurship in Economics: From Unknown to Missing
4.3 Schumpeter, Drucker, and Hamel
4.4 Economic Calculation Revisited
4.5 Externalities and Economic Calculation
4.6 The Institutional Framework of Economic Calculation
4.7 Markets within a Firm

5.1 Kolko and Schumpeter on Capitalist Stagnation and Instability
5.2 The “Remarkable” Influence of Perfect-Competition Theory
5.3 The Realism of Arthur Bentley

6.1 “Overproduction” and the Business Cycle
6.2 Progressivism and Statism
6.3 The “New Vocabulary”
6.4. Early Political Capitalism
6.5 The Hoover Mythology

7.1 Pre-Malthus “Malthusianism”
7.2 Did Malthus Change His Mind?
7.3 Coal: The Great Liberator
7.4 Jevons as a Malthusian
7.5 Precedent to Jevons
7.6 Unnecessary Alarmism?

8.1 Zimmermann—A Forgotten Economist
8.2 Zimmermann and Institutionalism
8.3 Zimmermann’s Methodological Isolation
8.4 Zimmermann and Petroleum Conservation
8.5 The Rise of Conservation Economics

9.1 Thoroughgoing Alarmism: Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren
9.2 Deep Ecology
9.3 Welfare Economics

10.1 Hotelling’s Sophism
10.2 The Conversion of Julian Simon

11.1 Julian Simon as Paradigm Builder
11.2 Margaret Thatcher and Global Warming
11.3 Broader Energy Alarmism
11.4 Contemporary Hubbert Analysis