• Acknowledgments


• Foreword


• Introduction


• Part I: Foundations


• Chapter One: Defining Infrastructure and Commons Management


• Chapter Two: Overview of Infrastructure Economics


• Chapter Three: Microeconomic Building Blocks


• Part II: A Demand Side Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management


• Chapter Four: Infrastructural Resources


• Chapter Five: Managing Infrastructure as Commons


• Part III: Complications


• Chapter Six: Infrastructure Pricing


• Chapter Seven: Congestion


• Chapter Eight: Supply Side Incentives


• Part IV: Traditional Infrastructure


• Chapter Nine: Transportation Infrastructure-Roads


• Chapter Ten: Communications Infrastructure-Telecommunications


• Part V: Nontraditional Infrastructure


• Chapter Eleven: Environmental Infrastructure


• Chapter Twelve: Intellectual Infrastructure


• Part VI: Modern Debates


• Chapter Thirteen: Network Neutrality


• Chapter Fourteen: Application to Other Modern Debates


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

Brett M. Frischmann is Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he teaches intellectual property and internet law. After clerking for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practicing at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, he joined the Loyola University, Chicago law faculty in 2002. He has held visiting appointments at Cornell, Fordham, and Syracuse. He is a co-author of one of the leading internet law casebooks entitled: Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age, 4th Edition, along with Patricia L. Bellia, Paul Schiff Berman, and David G. Post. Professor Frischmann has written articles for the Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Review of Law and Economics, and many other leading journals.

This book devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roadsto environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy.