Chapter Two. Me and Mine: Property, the First Market

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. The designer disappears: Markets and their Makers 1
4. Section one. On the Books: The Markets We Make by Law
5. Chapter one. Coming into Being: In Praise of Markets 9
6. Chapter Two. Me and Mine: Property, the First Market 24
7. Chapter Three. Lex Non Scripta: The Laws We Don’t Make, or, the Common Law 33
8. Chapter four. I Am My Brother’s Keeper: Cooperatives 48
9. Chapter five. Trust: How We Cooperate to Compete 67
10. Chapter Six. Staking Claims on the Mind: Intellectual Property 74
11. Chapter Seven. Little Commonwealths: Corporations and the State That Creates Them 93
12. Chapter eight. The Future of Corporations 108
13. Section two. Infrastructure: The Markets We Make by Hand
14. Chapter nine. From Highways to Health Care: Progress through Infrastructure 117
15. Chapter Ten. Making Places 128
16. Chapter eleven. The Great Nineteenth- Century Train Robbery 136
17. Chapter Twelve. A Socialist Paradise: The American Road System 147
18. Chapter Thirteen. Waiting for a Train Station 154
19. Chapter fourteen. What We Did Before: Path Dependence and Markets 162
20. Chapter fifteen. Police and Prisons: Freedom, Security, and Democracy 171
21. Chapter Sixteen. Why Don’t You Make Me? Government and Force 177
22. Section three. Seeding the Fields: The Markets We Make in Our Minds
23. Chapter Seventeen. Common Tongue, Common Culture, Common Markets 189
24. Section four. The Markets We Build Abroad
25. Chapter eighteen. By Your Bootstraps: Developing Countries and Markets 207
26. Chapter nineteen. Last Night upon the Stairs: International Law 218
27. Section five. Looking Forward: Making Better Markets
28. Conclusion. Making Better Markets 235
29. Afterword. My own story: a Circuitous Journey 240
30. Acknowledgments 245
31. Notes 247
32. Selected Bibliography 261
33. Index 273