| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | The Mild Revolutionary | 6 |
| Freedom of Speech | |
| Journalism | |
| Benjamin Franklin | |
| Bureaucracy | |
| The Theater | |
| The Constitution of 1795 | |
| Promoting the Arts and Trades | |
| Ch. 2 | The Sober Utopian | 33 |
| A Moral Society | |
| Plain Living and Comfort | |
| The Need for Political Economy | |
| Monuments and Aphorisms | |
| Ch. 3 | The Frustrated Economist | 46 |
| The French in Egypt | |
| Offending Napoleon | |
| Political Economy as a Science | |
| Everybody's Business | |
| Elementary Schools for All | |
| Extravagance and Deprivation | |
| The Profits and Evils of Slavery | |
| Ch. 4 | The Innovative Economist | 66 |
| Utility and Value | |
| Goods and Services | |
| The Entrepreneur | |
| Say's Law | |
| Population | |
| Say in Business for Himself | |
| Emigration? Thomas Jefferson | |
| Ch. 5 | The Commentator on England | 90 |
| British Wealth and Credit | |
| Taxes, Debt, Deficit, and Poverty | |
| Machinery and Steam Engines | |
| Paper Money: The Bank of England | |
| India and the East India Company | |
| Ireland and Its Future | |
| Assisted Emigration | |
| The University of London | |
| Ch. 6 | The Professor of Political Economy | 117 |
| Economics for Entrepreneurs | |
| Critique of Contemporaries | |
| The Canal Age | |
| Liberia | |
| The Uses of Statistics | |
| Economics and the Fate of Nations | |
| The Chair at the College of France | |
| References | 157 |
| Index | 165 |
