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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Another Take on How It All Began 1. Capitalist Spirit and the British Economic Miracle 2. The Great Seventeenth-Century Exception Part II: Spread of the New Economic Consciousness on the European Continent 3. First Convert: France 4. Power of Concerted Action: Putting the Spirit of Capitalism to Work in Germany Part III: Asian Challenge: Way of Japan 5. Japanese Nationalism 6. Racing and Fighting Part IV: Economic Civilization: Spirit of Capitalism in the New World 7. Searching for the American System 8. Thrust Epilogue: Looking Backward from Year 2000 Notes Index
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