Comments on: Free Zones as an Additional Option for the Cambrian Explosion in Government

By: In Defense of Urban Life « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

In Defense of Urban Life « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:57:01 +0000

[...] a larger scale, this blog has covered ideas like progressive environmental trusts and dividend systems for the upkeep of natural parks and the [...]

By: Simon Kuznets’ Nobel Acceptance Lecture: Innovate Social Institutions! « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:56:26 +0000

[...] recently started a project for special reform zones. Here are Kuznet’s nations, picking and choosing institutional innovations to channel “new production [...]

By: How to Radically Empower over 2/3rds of the World’s Population « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:03:07 +0000

[...] should be calling for the tangible, practical, progressive movement towards democratizing access to rule-creating institutions themselves: bringing good commercial law and methods of dispute resolution to as many people as [...]

By: Detroit: Charter City? « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Detroit: Charter City? « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:54:19 +0000

[...] is held privately with citizens as shareholders, this decline would be felt early on. Watching a Citizen’s Dividend shrivel or an official’s salary fall from the deadweight losses of special-interest lobbying [...]

By: Scientific American on The Future of Cities « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Scientific American on The Future of Cities « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:27:45 +0000

[...] offer a bright future for mankind, especially the world’s poorest. Entrepreneurial Free Cities and Charter Cities are an indispensable tool for bringing the environmental, cultural, and economic [...]

By: Methods of Development | Creating Cities to Create Growth « Blogal Prosperity by the Center for Global Prosperity

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:20:57 +0000

[...] entrepreneur Michael Strong also proposes a similar methodology based on free zones; entitled Free Cities, he maintains that cities would develop on previously vacant land. Once re-zoned, the land [...]

By: CASE STUDY: Why is my city raising taxes to buy a decaying shopping center? « David McElroy

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:17:50 +0000

[...] one is right? What if they’re all right? What if we had a system by which different areas could be established according to different rules — so that we’re not all stuck living under the same set of [...]

By: If the state didn’t wither away for Marx and Engels, is there really a post-statist era ahead now? « David McElroy

Wed, 25 May 2011 05:08:38 +0000

[...] that’s eventually going to take its place. At first, it’s just going to be an isolated free city or two. It might be something existing as a “charter city” of some sort within another [...]

By: Could ‘free cities’ — existing inside more restrictive states — be a first step toward freedom? « David McElroy

Tue, 17 May 2011 05:11:50 +0000

[...] Smith Institute is considered the leading libertarian think tank in the UK.) He also points to an article by Michael Strong that looks at attempts to establish zones of freedom within very restrictive countries. He looks at [...]

By: Systems of Rules as the Cause of Poverty: Interview with Michael Strong « Sólo Historias

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:40:21 +0000

[...] he’s written in defense of Free Cities as a path to a “Nozickian Utopia of [...]