Introduction -- AGE OF THE NEW DEAL. "The market is what you make it" : Jesse Jones & the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932-37) -- King Nottoc of Washington : Jesse Jones & housing markets (1932-37) -- Empire, built and broken : Jesse Jones, aviation & the war (1939-45) -- The architect of orderly : Bill Martin & the Federal Reserve (1951-65) -- Crafting health-care markets : Katherine Ellickson & Medicare (1948-68) -- RISE OF THE GLOBAL. In the shadows of Bretton Woods : Andrew Brimmer & global finance (1963-74) -- The cost of control : Arthur Burns & inflation (1969-70) -- Crisis architect : Bill Simon & energy markets (1973-80) -- THE LIBERTARIAN FANTASY. The fight for discretion : Nancy Teeters & the Volcker shock (1979-84) -- Saving Silicon : Robert Noyce & semiconductor industrial policy (1983-93) -- The maestro's market : Alan Greenspan & financial innovation (1993-2006) -- The purist's pitfall : Hank Paulson & the great financial crisis (2008) -- A NEW MARKETCRAFT. The realignment : Brian Deese & the automotive industry (2008-10) -- Revolution in the banks : Lina Khan & antimonopoly (2015-16) -- The odyssey : Felicia Wong, Julius Krein & Jake Sullivan (2016-20) -- Bidenomics : Brian Deese & Jake Sullivan (2020-22) -- The new marketcraft : Michael Schmidt, Brian Deese & Lina Khan (2022-24) -- Conclusion

"A revelatory and unexpected history of the rise of American capitalism--and an argument that entrepreneurial leaders in government, not the mythical "free market," created the most dynamic economy the world has ever known"--