The final part is on ecological systems, stressing that economies are essentially an eco-system of commodities, part of the total eco-system of the world, which is undergoing a constant and irreversible evolutionary change.

Part 1 Introduction: a biographical autobiography. Part 2 Towards a new economics: allocation and distribution; space as a factor of production; puzzles over distribution; what went wrong with economics?; the economics of pride and shame; appropriate methodologies for the study of the economy (published in Polish only); the implications of macrodistribution for personal distribution; taxonomy as a source of error. Part 3 The grants economy: innovation and the grant economy; pathologies of the public grants economy; a second look at "Progress and Poverty". Part 4 International economic relations: international economic relations; the role of conflict in the dynamics of society; an economic assessment of unilateral national defense; unilateral national defense organizations - an economic analysis of non-economic structures; the role of organized nonviolence in achieving stable peace. Part 5 Ecological economics: the unimportance of energy; development as evolution towards human betterment; cybernetics in the evolutionary process; regions of time; population factors in development economics.