Markets are the most efficient means yet discovered of allocating society’s scarce resources Unfortunately, many believe that market forces must inevitably conflict with social goals So it is important to remind ourselves that market forces and self-interest can fulfil social, as well as private, aspirations This book introduces a radical озьцъ new financial instrument, Conflict Reduction Bonds, intended to channel the market’s incentives and efficiencies into achieving what is perhaps our mosturgent and yet remote social objective: the ending for all time of violent political conflict.  SterlinISBN 0595294847.