Brett M. Frischmann, Infrastructure: the social value of shared resources

摘要

Brett Frischmann starts his captivating and challenging book with some figures provided by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), according to which "more than 26 %, or one in four, of the nation's [U.S.'s] bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete" (p. ⅸ-ⅹ). From this, Frischmann generalizes that "we have a major infrastructure problem in the United States" (p. ⅹ). This problem is not limited to bridges but, also affects other resources that Frischmann defines as infrastructures including: the internet, basic research, ideas, language, law, and the environment.