"After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so powerful, why it succeeded, and why it has failed so spectacularly. In 1990, the G7 Countries...

Intro -- 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...