Freedom and Economic Order is the second of three volumes comprising a comprehensive study of freedom and American society. Volume I, Freedom and Political order, examines the meaning of freedom and its relation to the rule of law. Volume II explores the relation of individual freedom to the economic arrangements of society. It examines capitalism and the market process; socialism and the planned economy; the Marxist critique of capitalism; and the conceptions of justice and social justice correlative to capitalism and socialism, respectively. Volume III, The Rise and Fall of Freedom, explores the historical rise of the free society in the West and various threats, both historical and contemporary, to its vitality and preservation.