本書では、ケインズの一般理論と山田方谷の藩政改革を対比し、その理論の限界を明らかにしている。つまり、方谷の改革理念が、市場に専売制という調整機構を導入し、経済を安定させるという、「供給が需要を生む」というセイの法則との関係性を解く Chapter 1 Cognition and J.M. Keynes’s economic philosophy and Generative Economics Chapter 2 Homeostasis and Complementary economic network Chapter 3 Economic fluctuation and a cognitive phenomenon Chapter 4 Cognition and J.M. Keynes’s General theory Chapter 5 J.M. Keynes’s General theory and Yamada Houkoku’s economic policy Supplements Financial crisis, Great Depression and New economics for global prosperity Part II Yamada Houkoku’s solution for global economic prosperity “The transformation from a competitive global capitalism to a complementary economic system” 1 A monetary economy and Yamada Houkoku’s solution 2 Complex cognitive theory and Yamada Houkoku’s policy 3 Yamada Houkoku’s solution and Generative Economics “Cognition and Universal macroeconomics based upon modern linguistics”　 4 Yamada Houkoku’s dynamic economic system 5 Yamada Houkoku’s solution and a self-adjusting mechanism 6 Yamada Houkoku’s solution for global economic prosperity