The voluntary city
Subtitle: choice, community, and civil society
By: edited by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok ; foreword by Paul Johnson
Contributors: Beito, David T., 1956-; Gordon, Peter, 1943-; Tabarrok, Alexander
Series: Economics, cognition, and society
Publisher: University of Michigan Press; Independent Institute
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ann Arbor; [Oakland, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Municipal government; Voluntarism -- United States -- History; Voluntarism -- Great Britain -- History; Volunteer workers in community development; Public-private sector cooperation -- United States; Public-private sector cooperation -- Great Britain; Civil society; Social service
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Toward a rebirth of civil society / David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok; title: Building the voluntary city. Laissez-faire urban planning / Stephen Davies. The private places of St. Louis : urban infrastructure through private planning / David T. Beito. The voluntary provision of public goods? : the turnpike companies of early America / Daniel Klein. Entrepreneurial city planning : Chicago's central manufacturing district / Robert C. Arne; title: Law and social services in the voluntary city. Justice without government : the merchant courts of medieval Europe and their modern counterparts / Bruce L. Benson. The private provision of police during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Stephen Davies. "This enormous army" : the mutual-aid tradition of American fraternal societies before the twentieth century / David T. Beito. Medical care through mutual aid : the friendly societies of Great Britain / David G. Green. Education in the voluntary city / James Tooley; title: The voluntary city and community. Proprietary communities and community associations / Fred E. Foldvary. Contractual governments in theory and practice / Donald J. Boudreaux and Randall G. Holcombe. Privatizing the neighborhood : a proposal to replace zoning with private collective property rights to existing neighborhoods / Robert H. Nelson. The case for land lease versus subdivision : homeowners' associations reconsidered / Spencer Heath MacCallum; title: Epilogue. Market challenges and government failure : lessons from the voluntary city / Alexander Tabarrok