The Voluntary City

The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Edited by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok Foreword by Paul Johnson

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"The Voluntary City is, in several respects, a big book. It is also an important one. It opens up a number of windows on the organization of urban life and civil society generally. It addresses from many points of view, not the least of which is the past history of cities, questions that have hardly been addressed for several decades. The key question is the optimal mode of provision of a whole range of ‘public’ services, including housing, transportation, education, medical care, police and law courts. This book may well lead to a reconsideration of how these services might be better provided through voluntary, market-based arrangements than by the ministrations of urban planners and other experts of the modern welfare state.”—NATHAN ROSENBERG, Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University

PS: Um livro a ler pelas "cidades" que um dia se atrevam a regressas ao bom e velho estatuto de "Cidade-Estado", desligando-se pacificamente do centralismo (democrático) que as abafa.