| Foreword | |
| Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | How the Interests were Called Upon to Counteract the Passions | 7 |
| The Idea of Glory and Its Downfall | 9 |
| Man "as he really is" | 12 |
| Repressing and Harnessing the Passions | 14 |
| The Principle of the Countervailing Passion | 20 |
| "Interest" and "Interests" as Tamers of the Passions | 31 |
| Interest as a New Paradigm | 42 |
| Assets of an Interest-Governed World: Predictability and Constancy | 48 |
| Money-Making and Commerce as Innocent and Doux | 56 |
| Money-Making as a Calm Passion | 63 |
| Pt. 2 | How Economic Expansion was Expected to Improve the Political Order | 67 |
| Elements of a Doctrine | 70 |
| Related yet Discordant Views | 93 |
| Pt. 3 | Reflections on an Episode in Intellectual History | 115 |
| Where the Montesquieu-Steuart Vision Went Wrong | 117 |
| The Promise of an Interest-Governed World versus the Protestant Ethnic | 128 |
| Contemporary Notes | 132 |
| Notes | 137 |
| Index | 147 |
