- Introduction: The fatal blandishing
- Pericles (495BC-429BC) and the invention of democracy
- Jesus (7/2BC-AD 30/33) and the brotherhood of man
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) and the self supreme
- Adam Smith (1723-90) and the invisible hand
- Edmund Burke (1729-97) and the stickiness of society
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and the endless of revolution
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and the management of happiness
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) and the rights of woman – and men too
- Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-72) and the religion of nationhood
- Karl Marx (1818-83) and the death of capitalism
- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) and the non-violent path
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) and the dream of Islam
- Finale: In praise of trade-off
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