"The control of competition is designed, at best, to reconcile socioeconomic stability with innovation, and at worst, to keep competitors out of the market. In this respect, the nineteenth century was no more liberal than the eighteenth century. Even during the presumed liberal nineteenth...

"Prophecies about the end of capitalism are as old as capitalism. None of them, so far, has come true. Yet we keep looking into the crystal ball in search of harbingers of doom. Francesco Boldizzoni gets to the root of the very human need to imagine a better world and uncovers the mechanisms by...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- One. Sitting on the Edge of Apocalypse -- Two. The Interwar Revival of Prophecy -- Three. Hopes Betrayed -- Four. The End of History and What Followed -- Five. Wanderings of the Predictive Mind -- Six. How Capitalism...