The surprising design of market economies /

Bringing a fresh perspective to current debates over the 'free market, ' this wide-ranging look at how market economies are designed and constructed helps us understand how 'the market' works and how we can build fairer and more effective markets.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Marshall, Alex, 1959-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
الطبعة:1st ed.
سلاسل:Constructs series.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/717770
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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
  • 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
  • Common tongue, common culture, common markets
  • By your bootstraps: developing countries and markets
  • Last night upon the stairs: international law
  • Conclusion. Making better markets.