The international system. The hundred years' peace ; Conservative twenties, revolutionary thirties -- Rise and fall of market economy. "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 -- Transformation in progress. Popular government and market economy ; History in the gear of social change ; Freedom in a complex society -- Balance of power as policy, historical law, principle, and system -- Hundred years' peace -- The snapping of the golden thread -- Swings of the pendulum after World War I -- Finance and peace -- Selected references to "societies and economic systems" -- Selected references to "evolution of the market pattern" -- The literature of Speenhamland -- Poor law and the organization of labor -- Speenhamland and Vienna -- Why not Whitbread's bill? -- Disraeli's "two nations" and the problem of colored races.