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. 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. By Alex Marshall. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.