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- Privatization and Its Discontents
- Privatization and Its Discontents
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Early Liberalism, Adam Smith, and the Seeds of the Infrastructural State
- 2 Forging the Infrastructural State
- 3 “A Wilderness of Turnpike Gates”
- 4 The Panic of 1837 and the Infrastructure Crash
- 5 “The Ground under Our Feet”
- 6 The Death of Laissez-Faire and the Rise of Infrastructure in the Cold War
- Conclusion
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2023
- Privatization and Its Discontents
- Privatization and Its Discontents
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Early Liberalism, Adam Smith, and the Seeds of the Infrastructural State
- 2 Forging the Infrastructural State
- 3 “A Wilderness of Turnpike Gates”
- 4 The Panic of 1837 and the Infrastructure Crash
- 5 “The Ground under Our Feet”
- 6 The Death of Laissez-Faire and the Rise of Infrastructure in the Cold War
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
The chapter provides an overview of the infrastucture concept and argues that it is both an economic and a political concept. It provides an overview of the interdisciplinary literature on infrastructure since the 1990s and situates the book in the debate about laissez-faire and the literature on the American state, taking the side of those who have argued in favor of deeper roots of the American state in the nineteenth century. It also provides chapter summaries and overviews.
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- Privatization and Its DiscontentsInfrastructure, Law, and American Democracy, pp. 1 - 32Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023