The surprising design of market economies

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Alex, Author.

Series:

Constructs The surprising design of market economies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Capitalism.

Free trade.

Markets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Texas Press 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "The Surprising Design of Market Economies".

Contents:

Intro

Introduction. The Designer Disappears: Markets and their Makers

Section One. On the Books: The Markets We Make by Law

1. Coming into Being: In Praise of Markets

2. Me and Mine: Property, the First Market

3. Lex Non Scripta: The Laws We Don't Make, or, the Common Law

4. I Am My Brother's Keeper: Cooperatives

5. Trust: How We Cooperate to Compete

6. Staking Claims on the Mind: Intellectual Property

7. Little Commonwealths: Corporations and the State That Creates Them

8. The Future of Corporations

Section Two. Infrastructure: The Markets We Make by Hand

9. From Highways to Health Care: Progress through Infrastructure

10. Making Places

11. The Great Nineteenth-Century Train Robbery

12. A Socialist Paradise: The American Road System

13. Waiting for a Train Station

14. What We Did Before: Path Dependence and Markets

15. Police and Prisons: Freedom, Security, and Democracy

16. Why Don't You Make Me? Government and Force

Section Three. Seeding the Fields: The Markets We Make in Our Minds

17. Common Tongue, Common Culture, Common Markets

Section Four. The Markets We Build Abroad

18. By Your Bootstraps: Developing Countries and Markets

19. Last Night upon the Stairs: International Law

Section Five. Looking Forward: Making Better Markets

Conclusion: Making Better Markets

Afterword. My Own Story: A Circuitous Journey

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph