The Surprising Design of Market Economies
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The designer disappears: Markets and their Makers -- Section one. On the Books: The Markets We Make by Law -- Chapter one. Coming into Being: In Praise of Markets -- Chapter Two. Me and Mine: Property, the First Market -- Chapter Three. Lex Non Scripta: The Laws We Don't Make, or, the Common Law -- Chapter four. I Am My Brother's Keeper: Cooperatives -- Chapter five. Trust: How We Cooperate to Compete -- Chapter Six. Staking Claims on the Mind: Intellectual Property -- Chapter Seven. Little Commonwealths: Corporations and the State That Creates Them -- Chapter eight. The Future of Corporations -- Section two. Infrastructure: The Markets We Make by Hand -- Chapter nine. From Highways to Health Care: Progress through Infrastructure -- Chapter Ten. Making Places -- Chapter eleven. The Great Nineteenth- Century Train Robbery -- Chapter Twelve. A Socialist Paradise: The American Road System -- Chapter Thirteen. Waiting for a Train Station -- Chapter fourteen. What We Did Before: Path Dependence and Markets -- Chapter fifteen. Police and Prisons: Freedom, Security, and Democracy -- Chapter Sixteen. Why Don't You Make Me? Government and Force -- Section three. Seeding the Fields: The Markets We Make in Our Minds -- Chapter Seventeen. Common Tongue, Common Culture, Common Markets -- Section four. The Markets We Build Abroad -- Chapter eighteen. By Your Bootstraps: Developing Countries and Markets -- Chapter nineteen. 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
