Part 1: Overview -- The facts to be explained -- A framework for analysis -- Part 2: Factor accumultion -- Physical capital -- Population and economic growth -- Future population trends -- Human capital -- Part 3: Productivity -- Measuring productivity -- The role of technology in growth -- The cutting edge of technology -- Efficiency -- Growth in the open economy -- Part 4: Fundamentals -- Government -- Income inequality -- culture -- Geography, climate, and natural resources -- Resources and the enviroment at the global leval -- Part 5: What we have learned and where we are headed

1. Economic development