Introduction / Christopher Johnson -- Financial markets and economic well-being / Peter M. Oppenheimer -- The state of the market / Nigel Lawson -- Economic freedom and libertarian thinking / Alan Peacock -- The Fred Hirsch Memorial Lectures : The political economy of the dollar / Paul Volcker -- Responsibility in economic life / Charles Kindleberger -- Reflections on the invisible hand / Frank Hahn -- The profit motive / Amartya Sen -- On the efficiency of the financial system / James Tobin -- The dollar and the world economy / Harold Lever -- Growth in the affluent society / Tibor Scitovsky