Privatization and Its Discontents - Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy

"This book combines literature on legal history, infrastructure, privatization, and neoliberalism in America to highlight the multilayered nature of infrastructure and related concepts. The book situates recent infrastructure debates in a genealogy of public-private governance in the United States"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Early liberalism, Adam Smith, and the seeds of the infrastructural state; 2. Forging the infrastructural state: 1787-1837; 3. 'A wilderness of turnpike gates:' roads and public authority in antebellum America; 4. The panic of 1837, the infrastructure crash, and the rise of public purpose; 5. The ground under our feet: the birth of public utilities; 6. The death of laissez faire and the rise of infrastructure in the cold war.

About the author

Matthew Titolo is Professor of Law at the West Virginia University College of Law. Professor Titolo researches nineteenth-century American legal and political history and teaches American legal history as well as commercial law courses.

Summary

This book combines literature on legal history, infrastructure, privatization, and neoliberalism in America to highlight the multilayered nature of infrastructure and related concepts. The book situates recent infrastructure debates in a genealogy of public-private governance in the United States.

Foreword

Analyzes infrastructure across American history with special emphasis on the legal and economic ideas that shape infrastructure politics.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Titolo, Matthew (West Virginia University School o Titolo, Matthew (West Virginia University School of Law) Titolo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781108468763
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46876-3
• No. of pages: 450
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, 21st Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political science & theory, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, C 1700 To C 1800, Constitutional & administrative law, Administrative law, general