ABSTRACT
The conclusion of the present book is that neither economic nor ethical considerations surrounding the notion of public goods establish the desirability or inevitability of the existence of territorial monopolies of force, thus lending support to the suggestion that the emergence of a worldwide contractual, competitive, entrepreneurial order of legal polycentrism would be a welcome alternative. In this chapter, I suggest that the research avenues opened by this conclusion are as disciplinarily wide-ranging as they are far-reaching. Thus, their pursuit promises to be a fruitful, challenging, and potentially groundbreaking scholarly endeavor, perhaps especially in the fields of institutional entrepreneurship, cultural entrepreneurship, business ethics, and contractarian political philosophy.
