Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Note on the 2001 Edition -- Author's Acknowledgments -- The Hundred Years' Peace -- Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties -- ''Habitation versus Improvement'' -- Societies and Economic Systems -- Evolution of the Market Pattern -- The Self- Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money -- Speenhamland, 1795 -- Antecedents and Consequences -- Pauperism and Utopia -- Political Economy and the Discovery of Society -- Man, Nature, and Productive Organization -- Birth of the Liberal Creed -- Birth of the Liberal Creed (Continued): Class Interest and Social Change -- Market and Man -- Market and Nature -- Market and Productive Organization -- Self- Regulation Impaired -- Disruptive Strains -- Popular Government and Market Economy -- History in the Gear of Social Change -- Freedomin a Complex Society -- Notes on Sources -- Index.