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Part One A Static Approximation 1. Demand 2. The Factors of Production 3. Productivity and Production Part Two Toward a Dynamic Description 4. The Urban Revolution: The Communes 5. Population: Trends and Plagues 6. Technology 7. Enterprise, Credit, and Money 8. Production, Incomes and Consumption: 1000-1500 9. The Emergence of the Modern Age 10. The Changing Balance of Economic Power in Europe