Can the market provide law enforcement? This paper addresses this question by analyzing an historical case study: the system of private prosecutions that prevailed in England prior to the introduction of the police. I examine why this system came under strain during the Industrial Revolution, and how private clubs emerged to internalize the externalities that caused the private system to genera...

I will use David Marker’s book [Mar] as the basic reference for the talks, partly because it’s likely to be the easiest one to find. Other presentations are available: the books by Hodges [Hod], Poizat [PoE] are also excellent (and Poizat in French [PoF] is even better). The classic text on model theory is by Chang and Keisler [ChK]. To go deeper into geometric stability theory you should look ...