Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Prologue.- Part 1: Internal and External Equilibrium under the Bretton Woods System .- Chapter 3: Japanese Economic Policy Management under the Bretton Woods System.- Chapter 4: The Internal vs External Dilemma: West German and Japanese Episodes.- Chapter 5: Discipline in Reserve Currency Countries: The United Kingdom and the United States .- Chapter 6: Frameworks for International Monetary and Economic Co-operation under the Bretton Woods System.- Chapter 7: My Work at the OECD Monetary Division in the Early 1970s .
- Part 2: Japanese Economic Policy Management and Balance of Payments Adjustment under the Floating Exchange Rate System .- Chapter 8: Japanese Economic Policy and Foreign Exchange Market Management in the Second Half of the 1970s.- Chapter 9: High US Interest Rates and Fiscal and Monetary Policy Mix in Three Largest Economies in the Early 1980s.- Chapter 10: The Plaza and Louvre Accords and Japanese Balance of Payments Adjustment .- Chapter 11: Black Monday 19 October 1987 and its Aftermath.- Chapter 12: Dealing with Japanese and International Policy Issues as Bank of Japan Chief Economist.- Chapter 13: Coping with the Bursting of Japan's Bubble and External Shocks.- Chapter 14: Japanese Economic Policy Management since the Beginning of the 21st Century .
- Part 3: Domestic and International Frameworks for Economic Policy Management .- Chapter 15: Frameworks and Conduct of Monetary Policy in Europe.- Chapter 16: Inflation Targeting and Alternative Monetary Policy Approaches.- Chapter 17: Macroeconomic and Prudential Controls on International Financial Markets .- Chapter 18: The Role and Limits of Multilateral Surveillance .- Part 4: New Challenges for the Global Economy .- Chapter 19: Regionalisation, Globalisation and Social Cohesion.- Chapter 20: OECD Co-operation with Non-Members.
- Chapter 21: Welfare, Global Order, Environment and Climate Change .- Chapter 22: Epilogue - Looking for Models in Pursuit of Economic Prosperity.