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Sandy Springs, Georgia: The City that Outsourced Everything

While cities across the country are cutting services, raising taxes and contemplating bankruptcy, something extraordinary is happening in a suburban community just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Since incorporating in 2005, Sandy Springs has improved its services, invested tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure and kept taxes flat. And get this: Sandy Springs has no Read More
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The Man Who Outsourced the Government | Foundation for Economic Education

Oliver Porter created and implemented the public-private partnership (PPP) model for Sandy Springs, Ga.—a city of 100,000 people near Atlanta. He has served as the principal advisor for many other new cities and for cities considering the conversion to the PPP model, both in the United States and Japan. He has authored three books on Read More

Private Cities 101 | Foundation for Economic Education

The 21st century will be the century of cities. Over the next 30 years, 1.8 billion people are expected to move to cities in developing countries. While some will add to existing cities, others will migrate to small towns, transforming them into the megapolises of tomorrow. Shenzhen, for example, was a small fishing village of Read More
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La Polonia avverte Bruxelles: vincono i nazionalisti anti Ue

Boom dei nazionalisti di Diritto e giustizia: formeranno un governo da soli. Un’altra spallata all’Europa Anche in Polonia vince la destra euroscettica. Un segnale che scuote i grigi burocrati di Bruxelles e che minaccia di far crollare l’impianto dell’Unione europea. Diritto e Giustizia (Pis) del leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski incassa una netta vittora conquistando quasi il Read More

Why Less Government Advances Individual Happiness: Libertarian Philosophy (1997)

Why Less Government Advances Individual Happiness: Libertarian Philosophy (1997) – YouTube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_… Murray was raised in Newton, Iowa in a Republican, non-collegiate “Norman Rockwell kind of family” that stressed moral responsibility. He is the son of Frances B. (née Patrick) and Alan B. Murray, a Maytag Company executive. He had an intellectual youth marked by Read More