Routledge has just published a new book on Assessing the Capitalist Peace, edited by Gerald Schneider & Nils Petter Gleditsch. The book reviews the empirical evidence for a capitalist peace and discusses several interpretations of its mechanisms, such as the contract intensity of market economies, the openness of the economy, and public vs private ownership of the means of production. Chapters by Erik Gartzke, Bruce Russett, Michael Mousseau (and several co-authors) air a persistent controversy in the field, whether or not the capitalist peace supersedes the democratic peace. The book also contains chapters by some of the pioneers in thinking about the relationship between the market economy and peace, such as John Mueller, Richard Rosecrance, and Erich Weede.