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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Constructs series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/717770 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.