The voluntary city : choice, community, and civil society / edited by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok ; foreword by Paul Johnson.

Contributor Beito, David T., 1956-

Imprint:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press ; [Oakland, Calif.] : Independent Institute, c2002.

Descriptionxiii, 462 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Toward a rebirth of civil society / David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok. - Laissez-faire urban planning / Stephen Davies. - The private places of St. Louis : urban infrastructure through private planning / David T. Beito. - The voluntary provision of public goods? : the turnpike companies of early America / Daniel Klein. - Entrepreneurial city planning : Chicago's central manufacturing district / Robert C. Arne. - Justice without government : the merchant courts of medieval Europe and their modern counterparts / Bruce L. Benson. - The private provision of police during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Stephen Davies. - "This enormous army" : the mutual-aid tradition of American fraternal societies before the twentieth century / David T. Beito. - Medical care through mutual aid : the friendly societies of Great Britain / David G. Green. - Education in the voluntary city / James Tooley. - Proprietary communities and community associations / Fred E. Foldvary. - Contractual governments in theory and practice / Donald J. Boudreaux and Randall G. Holcombe. - Privatizing the neighborhood : a proposal to replace zoning with private collective property rights to existing neighborhoods / Robert H. Nelson. - The case for land lease versus subdivision : homeowners' associations reconsidered / Spencer Heath MacCallum. - Market challenges and government failure : lessons from the voluntary city / Alexander Tabarrok.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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