The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society is an
Independent Institute-published book, edited by
David T. Beito, about communities with
private provision of municipal services. Contributors include Stephen Davies,
Daniel B. Klein, Robert C. Arne,
Bruce L. Benson, David G. Green,
James Tooley,
Fred E. Foldvary,
Donald J. Boudreaux,
Randall G. Holcombe,
Robert H. Nelson,
Spencer H. MacCallum, and
Alexander Tabarrok. It covers the topics of privatized provision of urban infrastructure, roads, planning, police, charity, medical care, education, and commercial regulation, particularly through examination of historical examples of this provision.