Introduction -- Early liberalism, Adam Smith, and the seeds of the infrastructural state -- Forging the infrastructural state : 1787-1837 -- "A wilderness of turnpike gates" : roads & public authority in antebellum America -- The panic of 1837 and the infrastructure crash -- "The ground under our feet" : the birth of public utilities -- The death of laissez-faire and the rise of infrastructure in the Cold War -- Conclusion : "our crumbling infrastructure."
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"-- Provided by the publisher.
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