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
