This book is an examination of markets, competition, and market governance from a critical, heterodox perspective. 

Frederic S. Lee is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.He has published extensively on heterodox microeconomics, on the history of heterodox economics. He was the editor of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter and the executive director of ICAPE. He is currently the editor of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. He has published in numerous heterodox journals including the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, Review of Social Economy,  and the Journal of Economic Issues.