The Surprising Design of Market Economies.

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.

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