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.

Things to do:

• Don't forget to check the Wikipedia pages for useful material.
• Make at least stubs for all major topics
• What would be a suitable category to group the topics into? Voluntary Cooperation? Alternatives to public goods?
• Should we also create pages for the public variations for each concept?
• A voluntary cooperation portal?
• 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.
• What 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 Used this; the other pages may still have something useful.

Pages

• Security/Safety:
  • Private laws
  • Private dispute resolution (aka Arbitration)
  • Private defense - naval [1] (taken over from WP, needs polishing)
  • Private police (aka Private law enforcement aka Private security)
  • Private prison (aka Private punishment)
  • Private prosecution, Prosecution association
  • Private emergency services / catastrophe aid? -> Swiss firefighters [2] and there's apparently much more: Firefighting worldwide
  • 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, [3])
• Welfare & other:
  • Friendly societies / Private insurance?
  • Private unemployment programs
  • Agriculture (esp. without subsidies) -> New Zealand [4]
  • Charity
  • Private libraries
  • Consumer protection? -> [5]
  • Contractual communities / Voluntary society^wikipedia/Zoning laws
  • Private environmental protection? -> see [6] and especially [7]

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