The Illusion of Free Markets

Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

Bernard E. Harcourt

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$30.00 • £24.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674066168

Publication Date: 11/12/2012

Short

336 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

7 tables, 12 graphs

World

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The Paris Marais and the Chicago Board of Trade
1. Beccaria on Crime and Punishment
2. Policing the Public Economy
3. The Birth of Natural Order
4. The Rise of Legal Despotism
5. Bentham’s Strange Alchemy
6. The Chicago School
7. The Myth of Discipline
8. The Illusion of Freedom
9. The Penitentiary System and Mass Incarceration
10. Private Prisons, Drugs, and the Welfare State
A Prolegomenon
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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