Contents
A Decrease in Productive Capacity
Chapter 2: The Original America is the New Brazil
Can America’s Destiny Be Fulfilled in Brazil?
Chapter 3: How Brazil Became Endowed for Prosperity in a Collapsing World
Yesterday’s Limitations as Today’s Strengths
Chapter 4: Prosperity and Energy Density
Denser Energy Equals a Rise in Prosperity
The Phases of Extracting Energy
The Shift from Coal to Oil and World War I
The Competition for Prosperity
The SS Great Britain Sails Again
Waiting for Our Malthusian Moment
Dearth, Insanity, and Revolution
Chapter 6: Deficit Attention Disorder
Debtism Helps Politicians Manipulate You
The U.S. Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush
Worse than the Great Depression
Chapter 7: “Rome” Falls, Again
Slip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency
Welcome to the Second Decline and Fall of “Rome”
Americans as the New Illegal Emigrants
Chapter 8: The Sunny Side of the Leverage Cycle
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