The market revolution and its limits : a price for everything / Alan Shipman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shipman, Alan, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free enterprise.

Markets.

Privatization.

Deregulation.

Physical Description:

viii, 493 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Non-polemical in its approach, this book provides a comprehensive appraisal of the market and its alternatives, backed up with empirical international illustrations.

Contents:

chapter Introduction

The market revolution

chapter 1 What markets are

chapter 2 Markets as efficient allocators

chapter 3 Markets as the route to full employment

chapter 4 Markets as engines of growth

chapter 5 Markets as information processors

chapter 6 The negotiated alternative

Relational transaction

chapter 7 Mediated alternatives

Administered and informed transaction

chapter 8 The firm

Redesigning the market

chapter 9 The international market

chapter 10 Market rewards

The distribution of income

chapter 11 Disinventing government

The state goes on sale

chapter 12 Conclusion

Its limits.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-488) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-72838-7

1-282-77752-1

0-203-02834-1

9786612777523

1-134-72839-5

9780203028346

OCLC:

936889118