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Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

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A high-energy tour of the history of markets features such examples as a camel trading fair in India, the twenty-million-dollar-per-day Aalsmeer flower market in the Netherlands, and the global trade in AIDS drugs. Reprint. 13,000 first printing.

Author(s): John McMillan
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Year: 2002

Language: English
Pages: 278
City: New York

Contents (vii)
Preface (ix)
1. The Only Natural Economy (3)
2. Triumphs of Intelligence (15)
3. He Who Can't Pay Dies (27)
4. Information Wants to Be Free (41)
5. Honesty Is the Best Policy (53)
6. To the Best Bidder (65)
7. Come Bid! (75)
8. When You Work for Yourself (89)
9. The Embarrassment of a Patent (103)
10. No Man Is an Island (119)
11. A Conspiracy against the Public (136)
12. Grassroots Effort (148)
13. Managers of Other People's Money (167)
14. A New Era of Competition (182)
15. Coming Up for Air (196)
16. Antipoverty Warriors (211)
17. Market Imperatives (224)
Acknowledgments (231)
Endnotes (233)
References (247)
Index (263)