Chapter 1 Beginnings and Early Intellectual Influences

Chapter 2 Early Challenges to Orthodoxy: The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory (first published in 1930)

Chapter 3 Theorizing About Macro-Economic Instability: Monetary Equilibrium (versions of 1932, 1933, and 1939)

Chapter 5 The Population Question and Swedish Social Policy in the 1930s

Chapter 6 An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944)

Chapter 7 Minister of Commerce and Economic Policy-Making for Post-War Sweden, 1944–1947

Chapter 8 International Civil Servant and Studies of the International Economy, 1947–1957

Chapter 9 Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968)

Chapter 10 Economic Policy Advice-Giving for the Rich and the Poor in the 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 11 Epilogue