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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface 1. The Quintessence | |
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| Summa Summarum | |
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| The Planetary Balance Sheet | |
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| The Global Picture in the Postwar Period | |
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| Developed Market Economies, 1850-1978 | |
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| The Growth of National Assets | |
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| Asset/Product Ratios | |
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| The Financial Interrelations Ratio | |
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| Conceptual and Statistical Problems | |
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| The Function of National and Sectoral Balance Sheets | |
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| Conceptual Problems | |
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| The Scope of National Balance Sheets | |
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| Classification of Assets and Liabilities | |
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| Sectorization | |
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| Valuation | |
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| Benchmark Dates | |
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| Statistical Difficulties | |
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| Sources | |
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| The Structure of National Balance Sheets | |
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| Overviews for 1880, 1913, 1950, and 1978 | |
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| The Division between Tangible and Financial Assets | |
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| The Structure of Tangible Assets | |
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| The Share of Land | |
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| The Structure of Reproducible Tangible Assets | |
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| The Structure of Financial Assets | |
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| The Financial Intermediation Ratio | |
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| Currency and Deposits | |
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| Insurance and Pension Claims | |
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| Government Debt | |
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| Corporate Securities | |
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| Trade Credit | |
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| The Role of Foreign Investments | |
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| Sectorized National Balance Sheets | |
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| The Sectoral Distribution of the Main Aggregates | |
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| National Assets | |
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| Tangible Assets | |
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| Financial Assets | |
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| Liabilities | |
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| Sectoral Net Creditor and Debtor Positions | |
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| A Comparison of India and the United States | |
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| Selected Balance Sheet Components | |
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| The Structure of Sectoral Balance Sheets | |
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| The Household Sector | |
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| Nonfinancial Corporate Business | |
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| The Government Sector | |
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| Financial Institutions | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| National Balance Sheets for 20 Countries | |
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| Australia | |
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| Belgium | |
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| Canada | |
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| Denmark | |
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| France | |
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| Germany | |
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| Great Britain | |
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| Hungary | |
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| India | |
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| Israel | |
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| Italy | |
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| Japan | |
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| Mexico | |
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| Norway | |
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| Russia/USSR | |
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| South Africa | |
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| Sweden | |
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| Switzerland | |
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| United States | |
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| Yugoslavia | |
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| Sectoral Balance Sheets for Six Countries France Germany Great Britain India Japan United States | |
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| Some Statistical Difficulties | |
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| List of Publications Cited | |
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| Index | |