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Are Private Cities in Our Future?
Alex Tabarrok of Marginal Revolution discusses his paper on Gurgaon, India’s private city. Subscribe to the Tom Woods Show: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podca… Are Private Cities in Our Future? – YouTube. Read More
How to Grow a City in Honduras, Part IV: Citizens as Shareholders
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part III: The Skeptics – YouTube
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part II: Company Towns
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
▶ How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part I: Governance as Technology
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems – Michael Strong, John Mackey
9780470450031: Amazon.com: Books An inspiring look at the positive effects of conscious capitalism In this turbulent economic environment, capitalism has had its fair share of critics. But despite the position we currently find ourselves in, there is much good that can come from this system. Be the Solution is a manifesto to conscious capitalism–how it Read More
Seasteading and Its Critics | Cato Unbound
Cato Unbound Managing Editor Jason Kuznicki writes in Cato @ Liberty: Whatâs needed, Friedman claims, is not more study or advocacy, but a change in the deeper institutional structures that give rise to government policies⦠Is this just a young personâs impatience? Or has Friedman found a serious weakness in libertarian activism? One reply I Read More
Leveraging Institutional Change | Cato Unbound
Patri Friedman’s critique of “libertarian folk activism” is basically right. Free-market ideas have enjoyed near-dominance in academic economics for roughly thirty years at least. Libertarian think tanks are well funded and influential. Despite these encouraging developments, the overall size of government continues to grow. Both national parties in the United States are, in deed if Read More
Beyond Folk Activism | Cato Unbound
In this month's lead essay, Patri Friedman charges libertarian activists with falling victim to bias: Specifically, they seem to suffer from the belief that advocacy and education are enough to change public policy. Friedman suggests otherwise, and he recommends that much more effort be put into demonstration projects that will show how a libertarian world Read More
Grecia, ora Tsipras è davvero un eroe. Contro la dittatura finanziaria – il Blog di Marcello Foa
La Grecia ricorre ad Referendum. Non sono mai stato un fan di Tsipras, però devo dire che questa volta è stato bravissimo. Un leader che ha il coraggio di pronunciare le parole che pubblico qui sotto merita rispetto: “Chiedo a voi di decidere – in nome della sovranità e della dignità che la storia greca 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
Against School – John Taylor Gatto
^Education, #Azzeramento Culturale, #Coercion, #De-responsabilizzazione, #Education as indoctrination, #Orwellian world (Mass control), +private SCHOOLING
How public education cripples our kids, and why I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time I became an expert in boredom. Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as I often did, why they
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Pay for Roads, Bridges with Per-Mile Fee | Cato Institute
Un esperimento interessante, che potrebbe essere seguito da quello del “Bollo” in funzione dei kilometri percorsi. In 1919, my home state of Oregon was the first to tax gasoline and dedicate the revenue to roads. Now Oregon is moving to become the first state to replace gas taxes with a per-mile fee. Historically, gas Read More
Poverty and Welfare | Libertarian Party
Highlights of the Libertarian Party’s “Ending the Welfare State” Proposal From across the political and ideological spectrum, there is now almost universal acknowledgement that the American social welfare system has been a failure. Since the start of the “war on poverty” in 1965, the United States has spent more than $5 trillion trying to ease Read More
Global Inequality is Unjust | Bleeding Heart Libertarians
Jonathan Anomaly asks, “Is global wealth inequality unjust?” Anomaly and Dan Moller suggest that global wealth inequality may be less unjust than a lot of people think because rich countries have good political institutions and cultures that encourage social and scientific experimentation, not because they are actively harming poor countries. Moller’s argument is that if Read More
Government Charges Hastert With “Crime” of Withdrawing His Own Money | The Beacon
*Natural Rights, #Abuse of power, #Capital Control, #Prosecutor's government, +private JUSTICE #Arbitrary Justice
By Randall Holcombe • Wednesday June 10, 2015 12:53 PM PDT • Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has been charged with lying to the FBI about the reason he was withdrawing money from bank accounts. Should what Hastert did be illegal, or any of the government’s business? Let’s look at
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