A rabble of dead money: the Great Crash and the global depression, 1929-1939

America Discovers the Modern. The jazz age ; Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and Insull ; And then came Ford ; Transformations: New York City ; The view from below: Muncie, Indiana ; Dislocations.

"One Heckuva Boom". Trickle-down economics ; From war to prosperity ; Electrifying Chicago ; David Buick, Billy Durant, Alfred Sloan, and the modern car industry ; What happened to Ford? ; A productivity bonanza ; Spinoffs ; Laggards: agriculture ; Laggards: real estate ; On the eve of the crash.

The Crash in the United States. New York Stock Exchange ; The rise of Herbert Hoover ; Charting the fall ; The worm's eye view ; The banking crises of the Great Depression ; The twilight of the gods I: Insull ; The twilight of the gods II: Kreuger.

Blood, Gold, and Unpaid Debts. Entanglements ; The gold standard ; Germany, 1919-1925: vengeance, reparations, and war debts ; The Dawes and Young plans ; England, 1919-1925: Churchill (sort of) chooses resumption ; The French rollercoaster ; The end of cooperation ; Germany unravels ; The golden jihad ; Getting what you wish for.

Roosevelt, Reflation, and Recovery. World Monetary & Economic Conference ; Devaluing the dollar ; Creating the "New Deal" ; The New Deal in overview ; The New Deal in detail ; The rest of the New Deal: a roundup ; Econometric analyses ; Catastrophe ; The unemployment conundrum ; The great lap forward.

The Geology of the Collapse. The legacy of war ; The big picture ; The details

Milking the Insull structure.