The surprising design of market economies / by Alex Marshall.
Series: Constructs seriesPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 280 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780292717770
- 0292717776
- 9780292756755
- 9780292739185 (e-book)
- 0292739184 (e-book)
- 330.12/2 23
- HB171 .M333 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-272) and index.
1. On the books: the markets we make by law -- Coming into being: in praise of markets -- Me and mine: property, the first market -- Lex non scripta: the laws we don't make, or, the common law -- I am my brother's keeper: cooperatives -- Trust: how we cooperate to compete -- Staking claims on the mind: intellectual property -- Little commonwealths: corporations and the state that creates them -- The future of corporations -- 2. Infrastructure: the markets we make by hand -- From highways to health care: progress through infrastructure -- Making places -- The great nineteenth-century train robbery -- A socialist paradise: the American road system -- Waiting for a train station -- What we did before: path dependence and markets -- Police and prisons: freedom, security, and democracy -- Why don't you make me? Government and force -- 3. Seeding the fields: the markets we make in our minds -- Common tongue, common culture, common markets -- 4. The markets we build abroad -- By your bootstraps: developing countries and markets -- Last night upon the stairs: international law -- 5. Looking forward: making better markets -- Conclusion: Making better markets -- Afterword: My own story: a circuitous journey.