The rational optimist: how prosperity evolves

Prologue : when ideas have sex

A better today : the unprecedented present

The collective brain : exchange and specialisation after 200,000 years ago

The manufacture of virtue : barter, trust, and rules after 50,000 years ago

The feeding of the nine billion : farming after 10,000 years ago

The triumph of cities : trade after 5,000 years ago

Escaping Malthus's trap : population after 1200

The release of slaves : energy after 1700

The invention of invention : increasing returns after 1800

Turning points : pessimism after 1900

The two great pessimisms of today : Africa and climate after 2010

The catallaxy : rational optimism about 2100.