Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Peter Boettke, Christopher Coyne, Virgil Storr -- Exploring and extending the theory of the market process -- Plato's economic genius / Nathan Sawarzky -- Beyond the efficiency of the market : Adam Smith on sympathy and the poor law / Brianne Wolf -- Why be robust? : the contribution of market process theory to the robust political economy research program / Nick Cowen -- Hayek's legacy for environmental political economy / Dan Shahar -- Interdisciplinary applications of market process theory -- The origins of entrepreneurship and the market process : an archaeological assessment of competitive feasting, trade, and social cooperation / Crystal Dozier -- The political economy : the invocation of liberal economics by the catholic press in the French right-to-work debates of 1848 / Nicholas O'Neill -- How the west was watered : private property and collective action / Bryan Leonard -- Adam Smith's principles of taxation in the early American Republic / Frank Garmon -- Narrating the market process : how stories can promote the economic way of thinking / Jason Douglas -- This is your entrepreneurial alertness on drugs : prohibition & the market process / Audrey Redford -- About the authors.

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.