"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...

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...