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
Gurgaon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the municipality (city) in India. For others, see Gurgaon district. Gurgaon (/ˈgʊrgaʊŋ/) is a leading financial and industrial city of India, situated in the National Capital Region near the Indian capital New Delhi in the state of Haryana. Located 19.9 miles (32 km) south-west of New Delhi, Gurgaon has a population of Read More
India’s Voluntary City
Fascinating piece in the NYTimes about a new city in India, a new city of 1.5 million people and more or less no city government. Gurgaon was widely regarded as an economic wasteland. In 1979, the state of Haryana created Gurgaon by dividing a longstanding political district on the outskirts of New Delhi. One half Read More
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
Diritti gay, per la sinistra il Family day non ha diritto a scendere in piazza – IlGiornale.it
#Abuse of power, #Demagogy/Spin Doctors, #Orwellian world (Mass control), #Snaturamento: Gender ideology/Family suppression, +Libertarian Activism
“È inaccettabile una manifestazione come quella contro le unioni civili che si tiene oggi a Roma”. Usa parole durissime Ivan Scalfarotto, esponente Pd e sottosegretario alle riforme del governo Renzi. Ce l’ha con il Family day: “Una manifestazione contro i diritti dei propri concittadini dà l’idea di quanto la battaglia per i diritti lgbt nel
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A Roma un milione in piazza per il Family Day – IlGiornale.it
A Piazza San Giovanni a Roma si è riunita l’Italia contraria alle unioni civili. “Siamo un milione”, gridano dal palco gli organizzatori della manifestazione. Nemmeno il diluvio ha fermato i partecipanti di ogni età (neonati compresi) e di ogni Regione. E ci sono anche circa cento parlamentari che hanno aderito al Family Day e che Read More
La triste ferocia omo-illiberale contro i cattolici
#Azzeramento Culturale, #Coercion, #Demagogy/Spin Doctors, #Orwellian world (Mass control), #Snaturamento: Gender ideology/Family suppression
In un Paese civile – e l’Italia, controriformista e intollerante, indipendentemente dallo schieramento al quale ciascuno appartiene, purtroppo, non lo è – tutti dovrebbero poter manifestare liberamente le proprie convinzioni a favore delle proprie libertà, comprese quelle sessuali, senza essere criminalizzati. Non capisco, perciò, perché i gay che (giustamente) manifestano per i propri diritti civili
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