Introduction: The Idea That Is Changing the World / Ideas and Consequences -- Interview with F.A. Hayek -- Liberalism in the New Millennium / Disregard of Reality / Economic Growth -- The Real Free Lunch: Markets and Private Property / The Soft Infrastructure of a Market Economy / The Causes of Economic Growth / The Welfare State -- Deregulating the Poor / Social Security: Has the Crisis Passed? / The Success of Chile's Privatized Social Security / Ending Welfare as We Know It / Preschool in the Nanny State / The Regulatory State -- The High Cost of Government Regulation / Enviro-Capitalism vs. Environmental Statism / Federal Deposit Insurance Source of S & L Crisis / Parasite Economy Latches onto New Host / A World in Transition -- Fear and Loathing in the Soviet Union / The Strikes in Poland: Workers against the Workers' State / Let a Billion Flowers Bloom / Prospects for Peaceful Change in South Africa / Transition in the East: Democracy and Market / The Communist Road to Self-Enslavement / China's Quiet Property Rights Revolution / Why Socialism Collapsed in Eastern Europe