Austrian Economics Wiki:Call to Action/Voluntary Cooperation

Please create and expand articles about voluntary (free market) ways of human cooperation, especially in domains where such a cooperation is disputed.

The ultimate goal: Create a solid introduction for anyone who is interested in the topic. Both sides of the discussion should be covered in good detail. There is a portal of sorts here: Privately supplied public goods.

Things to do:

• How about creating pages for the public variations for each concept?
• How to differentiate between private law and 'purely' private, contractual law?
• Some pages seem to do better with a title in plural (Public goods), esp. groupings of examples, as compared to the classic definitorial pages which should be in singular. Will need some consideration.
• Possible expansion: include also the pages mentioned on the Talk page.
• Polish Private defense agency (was taken over from WP)
• Check out this series of Freeman articles about education.
• Anything else?

Done:

• Y create Public Goods and Market Failures: A Critical Examination, Free rider problem, Market failure
• (Hopefully) exhausted resources:
  • Y Process this, a lot of material on infrastructure
  • Y Process this page for examples of topics and sources
  • Y Discovered even more resources here. Gods! So many!
    • Y Say thanks to their author, Roy Halliday.
  • Y Used this; the other pages may still have something useful.
• Y Make at least stubs for all major topics
• Y Check the Wikipedia pages for useful material - some have tons of useful content (although a lot is unreferenced, making it unusable); some have little material of use. Overall, too much to go through at the moment.
• Y Check the sources on the Talk page!
• Y What would be a suitable category to group the topics into? Voluntary Cooperation? Alternatives to public goods? Privately supplied public goods? Private alternatives to public goods!

Pages

• Security/Safety:
  • Private laws
  • Private dispute resolution (aka Arbitration)
  • Private defense, also Private defense agency
  • Private police (aka Private law enforcement aka Private security)
  • Private prison (aka Private punishment)
  • Private prosecution (aka Prosecution association)
  • Private emergency services / catastrophe aid (aka Private firefighting)
  • Private healthcare (aka Private hospitals) / Healthcare
• Infrastructure:
  • Private roads and a catchall page Private infrastructure, since if also features things like canals and railroads
  • Private utilities, sanitation, ...
  • Private schools
  • Private parks? (see Central Park Conservancy, [1])
  • Private post? (some history here, p. 428+)
• Welfare & other:
  • Friendly societies / Private insurance?
  • Private unemployment programs
  • Agriculture (esp. without subsidies)
  • Charity
  • Private libraries
  • Consumer protection? -> [2]
  • Contractual communities (aka Voluntary society - which name is better?) / Zoning laws
  • Private environmental protection? -> see [3] and especially [4]

• Public goods -> Public Goods and Market Failures: A Critical Examination, Free rider problem, Market failure
• ...anything else?