§LIBERAL Democracy
Opinion: It’s time to consider privatized policing | guns.com
The problem Questions of police accountability and efficacy have been prominent topics in the news of late. On a disturbingly regular basis, we hear and read stories of heavy-handed responses by officers, who, instead of de-escalating confrontations as a domestic police force ought, seem to prefer committing violence on the citizenry they’re ostensibly charged to Read More
Texas Town Gets Rid of Police Dept., Hires ‘SEAL Security’ — Guess What Reportedly Happened to Crime | TheBlaze.com
In 2012, the community of Sharpstown, Texas, made the controversial decision not to renew its contract with the local police department and instead hire a private security firm to combat crime. Since SEAL Security Solutions took over law enforcement in Sharpstown, crime has reportedly dropped by 61 percent in just 20 months. James Alexander, director Read More
Texas Town Hires Private Police Force … And Then Something Stunning Happened | The Conservative Tribune
American police forces have had more than their share of bad publicity. Corruption, racial profiling, use of excessive force … rightly or wrongly, it has all been reported regularly on the televised evening news. And it appears to be happening nationwide. So one Texas town decided to think outside the box. The civic leaders fired Read More
Perché negli Stati Uniti ha senso indebitarsi per prendere la laurea
Il dibattito americano sul sistema universitario ruota attorno alla riduzione delle rette e alle difficoltà degli studenti nel ripagare i prestiti. Ora uno studio dimostra che la realtà è molto diversa dagli stereotipi e dalla vulgata catastrofista Il sistema universitario è al centro della campagna elettorale americana, in particolare nel campo democratico. Tutti i concorrenti Read More
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
Robert Shiller Is Shilling for Socialism | Mises Daily
The Nobel Prize just gets cheaper and cheaper. Recent laureate Bob Shiller graces the New York Times with his latest rant that free-markets stink, bolstering his argument by making stuff up. For starters, Shiller writes that America’s wealth “can be attributed” to regulation. Well, sure, it “can be attributed” to Zeus. Or sunspots. In the Read More
The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 10 (The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy) – Online Library of Liberty
1.: The Constitutional Imperative I.: Introduction There is something profoundly unsatisfactory about economists’ introducing their subject matter by reference to the Robinson Crusoe who faces an “economic problem” because he must decide how to allocate his scarce resources (including time) among competing uses. With this introduction, it becomes far too easy to slip from the Read More
Edward Stringham | Private Governance Book Panel
(Q&A: 55′) Are all of the rules and regulations governing economic activity a product of central planning or legislation? To what extent does privately produced and enforced governance play a role? In his latest book, Edward Stringham argues that much of what is orderly in the economy can actually be attributed to governing mechanisms devised Read More
Ed Stringham: Private Governance
Our guest this weekend is Edward Stringham, professor of Economics at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of a fantastic new book called ‘Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life’. In this book, Ed looks back at the history of private legal systems, and in so doing demolishes the idea Read More
The Future Is Decentralized | Mises Institute
#Monopoly of force (defence), +LOCAL Direct Government (Decentralization)
dossier: (*RESTORE DEMOCRACY)
LibBLog note: The decentralisation of the organisation of the present Democracy is the goal of the Iniziativa Riforma dal Basso (Bottom Up Reform Initiative): a set of tools (web-based) that serve the citizens begin to handle, “in parallel” with the institutions, government and administration of the territory. – – – – The issue is that
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The Problem with Government Prosecutors | Mises Institute
An History of Justice. The state prosecutor is the quintessential bureaucrat — powerful and unaccountable. Whither this unaccountable and bureaucratic prosecutorial rule? The words of Maryland State Attorney Marilyn Mosby from May 1, 2015 are telling: It is my job to examine and investigate the evidence of each case and apply those facts to the Read More
Car sharing “bene comune”: non c’è limite ai luoghi comuni!
Grazie alla lettura del libro I beni comuni oltre i luoghi comuni ci si può accorgere di come la retorica benecomunista pervada la nostra vita di tutti i giorni. La polemica sul car sharing a Milano credo ne sia un esempio. Il comune di Milano nel 2013 decide di selezionare soggetti interessati a svolgere il Read More
Bibinomics: la lezione di Netanyahu — di Lukas Dvorak – LeoniBlog
!State Pension, #DeficitSpending/PublicDebt, #Unsustainability of Socialdemocracy, +private PENSIONS
Mentre Maria Elena Boschi ha passato i mesi di Maggio e Giugno a dichiarare che “Spagna e Israele stanno studiando la nuova Legge Elettorale italiana per copiarla” (senza indicare da quale fonte questa certezza proviene visto che il Jerusalem Post, in un articolo del 19 Marzo, considerava l’Italia un’anomalia democratica), nel corso di una cena
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▶ “Startup Cities,” Honduras, and Experiments in Freedom. Professor Tom W. Bell Talks With Reason.
“I often hear friends of liberty, classical liberals, libertarians say bad things about democracy, and I understand why,” says Tom W. Bell. “It’s not very good at building programs. But it is good at getting rid of things. In a ‘corrective democracy,’ people only vote against particular laws.” Bell, a law professor at Chapman University Read More
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society
Published by EH.NET (November 2002) David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok, editors, The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. xiii + 462 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-472-11240-6; $24.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-472-08837-8. Reviewed for EH.NET by Richard Lester, Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia. The Voluntary Read More