Preface -- Introduction to and Summary of Economic Growth: Perspectives on New Theory and Policy -- Decelerating Agricultural Society: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives -- Accelerating Economic Growth in Industrial Societies: The Process of Expansive Reproduction -- Determinants of Economic Divergence among Accelerating Societies -- The Faster-Accelerating Digital Economy -- The Faster Accelerating Growth of the Knowledge-Based Society -- The Catch-Up Illusion: Why Developing Nations that Experience Rapid Economic Growth Can Never Catch Up with Advanced Countries -- War, Peace and Economic Growth: The Phoenix Factor Reexamined -- The Relationship Among Stock Markets, Banks, Economic Growth, and Industry Development -- The Necessity of a New Industrial Classification Based on Value-Creation Behavior -- Biography of the Authors.