The illusion of free markets : punishment and the myth of natural order /
Bernard E. Harcourt.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
- 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Paris Marais and the Chicago Board of Trade -- Beccaria on crime and punishment -- Policing the public economy -- The birth of natural order -- The rise of legal despotism -- Bentham`s strange alchemy -- The Chicago School -- The myth of discipline -- The illusion of freedom -- The penitentiary system and mass incarceration -- Private prisons, drugs, and the welfare state -- A prolegomenon.