This volume brings together original research from the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy to analyse central elements of market process and market order.

Introduction, Peter Boettke, Christopher Coyne, Virgil Storr / Part I - Exploring and Extending the Theory of the Market Process / 1. Plato's Economic Genius, Nathan Sawarzky / 2. Beyond the Efficiency of the Market: Adam Smith on Sympathy and the Poor Law, Brianne Wolf / 3. Why be robust? The contribution of market process theory to the Robust Political Economy research program, Nick Cowen / 4. Hayek's Legacy for Environmental Political Economy, Dan Shahar / Part II - Interdisciplinary Applications of Market Process Theory / 5. The Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Market Process: An Archaeological Assessment of Competitive Feasting, Trade, and Social Cooperation, Crystal Dozier / 6. The Political Economy: The Invocation of Liberal Economics by the Catholic Press in the French Right-to-Work Debates of 1848, Nicholas O'Neill / 7. How the West was Watered: Private Property and Collective Action, Bryan Leonard / 8. Adam Smith's Principles of Taxation in the Early American Republic, Frank Garmon / 9. Narrating the Market Process: How Stories Can Promote the Economic Way of Thinking, Jason Douglas / 10. The Market Process in Health Care, Jerrod Anderson / 11. This is Your Entrepreneurial Alertness on Drugs: Prohibition & the Market Process, Audrey Redford / About the Authors