Drawing on a series of colorful examples from the ancient world, he illustrates some of the many ways in which actions can in fact be understood as public or pr

The book explores the core public tasks that the state has traditionally provided but which increasingly are being privatized and subsumed by the private sector

Louis, are in fact financing their own public goods and services in accordance with this theory. For such communities to rise and prosper, the author contends,

This 2004 textbook explores how markets operate and governments' roles in addressing market failures.

The book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public intere