. Is capitalism—our society’s dominant mode of doing
business—a collection of stories, for example, that the
market is the best way of allocating resources, that if
everyone pursues his or her own self-interest, society
will benefit from the citizenry’s energy and inventions,
and that state control is almost always bad? If it is,
will capitalism’s periodic crises and crashes eventually
cause its supporters to modify their views? Or are stories of this kind impervious to experience?