Cover -- Contents -- List of Sidebars -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Expansion under Uncertainty -- The Information Priorities of Scale -- The Division of Information -- Institutional Change -- Technical Model of Production -- Rules of Production -- 2 The State: An Information Theory -- The Delocalization of Measures -- International Financial Institutions: The International Monetary Fund -- The European Union: Police, Justice, Security, and Customs -- 3 Establishing Direction in Education Production -- The Importance of Scale -- Planning and Exchange -- Education as a Technical Model -- Trading Off Information -- Path Dependence -- 4 The Individual and the Collective in Education -- Dewey and the Means-Ends Problem -- The Trend toward Central Control -- A Difficulty in the Concept of Human Capital -- 5 Markets: The Logic of Convergence -- Public-Private Convergence and the Case of Voucher-Receiving Schools -- Teacher Education -- Transnational Trade in Higher Education -- 6 Market Failure in the Preservation of Liberty -- Freedom: True and False -- Game Theory -- Collective Visions of Rationality -- Democracy, Law, and Rationality -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.