Contents

FOREWORD BY JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

INTRODUCTION BY FRED BLOCK

NOTE ON THE 2001 EDITION

AUTHORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Part One: The International System

1. The Hundred Years’ Peace

2. Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties

Part Two: Rise and Fall of Market Economy

I. Satanic Mill

3. “Habitation versus Improvement”

4. Societies and Economic Systems

5. Evolution of the Market Pattern

6. The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money

7. Speenhamland, 1795

8. Antecedents and Consequences

9. Pauperism and Utopia

10. Political Economy and the Discovery of Society

II. Self-Protection of Society

11. Man, Nature, and Productive Organization

12. Birth of the Liberal Creed

13. Birth of the Liberal Creed (Continued): Class Interest and Social Change

14. Market and Man

15. Market and Nature

16. Market and Productive Organization

17. Self-Regulation Impaired

18. Disruptive Strains

Part Three: Transformation in Progress

19. Popular Government and Market Economy

20. History in the Gear of Social Change

21. Freedom in a Complex Society

NOTES ON SOURCES

1. Balance of Power as Policy, Historical Law, Principle, and System

2. Hundred Years’ Peace

3. The Snapping of the Golden Thread

4. Swings of the Pendulum after World War I

5. Finance and Peace

6. Selected References to “Societies and Economic Systems”

7. Selected References to “Evolution of the Market Pattern”

8. The Literature of Speenhamland

9. Poor Law and the Organization of Labor

10. Speenhamland and Vienna

11. Why Not Whitbread’s Bill?

12. Disraeli’s “Two Nations” and the Problem of Colored Races

INDEX