The surprising design of market economies
By: by Alex Marshall
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Constructs
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292717770; 9780292739185
Subjects: Free trade; Economics; Markets; Capitalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming into being: in praise of markets; title: Me and mine: property, the first market; title: Lex non scripta: the laws we don't make, or, the common law; title: I am my brother's keeper: cooperatives; title: Trust: how we cooperate to compete; title: Staking claims on the mind: intellectual property; title: Little commonwealths: corporations and the state that creates them; title: The future of corporations; title: From highways to health care: progress through infrastructure; title: Making places; title: The great nineteenth-century train robbery; title: A socialist paradise: the American road system; title: Waiting for a train station; title: What we did before: path dependence and markets; title: Police and prisons: freedom, security, and democracy; title: Why don't you make me? Government and force; title: Common tongue, common culture, common markets; title: By your bootstraps: developing countries and markets; title: Last night upon the stairs: international law; title: Conclusion. Making better markets.