Preface : austerity, a personal history
1. A primer on austerity, debt, and morality plays
pt. I. Why we all need to be austere
2. America : too big to fail? : bankers, bailouts, and blaming the State
3. Europe, too big to bail : thee politics of permanent austerity
pt. II. Austerity's twin histories
Austerity's intellectual and natural histories
4. The intellectual history of a dangerous idea, 1692-1942
5. The intellectual history of a dangerous idea, 1942-2012
6. Austerity's natural history, 1914-2012
7. The end of banking, new tales, and a taxing time ahead.