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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation -- The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View -- Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science? -- The Preconceptions of Economic Science I -- The Preconceptions of Economic Science II -- The Preconceptions of Economic Science III -- Professor Clark's Economics -- The Limitations of Marginal Utility -- Gustav Schmoller's Economics -- Industrial and Pecuniary Employments -- On the Nature of Capital I -- The Productivity of Capital Goods -- On the Nature of Capital II -- Investment, Intangible Assets, and the Pecuniary Magnate -- Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism -- The socialist Economics of Karl Marx and his Followers I -- The Theories of Karl Marx -- The socialist Economics of Karl Marx and his Followers II -- The Later Marxism -- The Mutation Theory and the Blond Race -- The Blond Race and the Aryan Culture -- An Early Experiment in Trusts

Two different connotations of the word "civilization" are examined, along with their terminological histories: (1) a singular usage with positive implications that stresses the process by which humankind's "savage" nature was tamed; & (2) a more plural & neutral usage that describes separate worldviews, customs, structures, & cultures, & how they form a kind of historical whole. Various treatments of the problem of the ambiguity of civilization/civilizations are reviewed, & the relevance of the concept to the problems of the late twentieth century is assessed. Several alternative futures are examined, & the possibility & moral desirability of an egalitarian world are discussed. 13 References. K. Hyatt