Comments on: Ten Practical Steps Towards Creating a Nozickian Utopia of Utopias

By: Free Cities and Seasteads: The Ultimate Low-Hanging Fruit? « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:01:45 +0000

[...] bloody) toolkit of revolution or exodus to the frontier. But the Thousand Nations vision – a global industry in rules, arbitration, and entrepreneurial communities – need not be [...]

By: devin balkind

devin balkind — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:40:46 +0000

Great post. Love the size of vision, but instead of thinking on the scale of new cities, we can think in terms of a game that people can play within existing citites and landscapes. This game would generate real wealth through the harvesting of natural production (farming, fishing, etc) that people can consume to create more value (fabrication, art, enterprise, etc) and exchange outputs with each other through game mechanics.

This is becoming easier and easier as emergent networks of coworking spaces and ecovillages coalesce, as free/libre/opensource technologies mature and gaming frameworks become more modular and deployable. Sarapis Foundation and our partners are working on a prototype in the New York area that connects rural PA with NYC through a network of farms, coworking facilities and a gaming scheme.

We need lots of help, including a ‘world-class’ legal framework to this system. Almost done with an explanatory presentation that I can send to you if you’re interested.

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

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

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

By: Knowledge Problems and Free Zones « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Knowledge Problems and Free Zones « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:42:14 +0000

[...] what makes Michael Strong’s preferred approach of using private enterprise to found new cities so attractive compared to other approaches. Free [...]

By: Let 560 Nations Bloom – Within the Boundaries of the U.S. « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:56:27 +0000

[...] the legal status of Native Americans with my Free Cities strategy. Perhaps we could see a Nozickian Utopia of Utopias led by the indigenous peoples of North America within our [...]

By: Paul Romer mainstreams the “Let a Thousand Nations Bloom” perspective among the economic development establishment « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:08:54 +0000

[...] approach is rather to look for an incentive-based approach to ensure increasing legal autonomy for a Free City. That aside, Romer’s paper ends with a marvelously open-ended statement of [...]

By: Recomendaciones « intelib

Recomendaciones « intelib — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:17:07 +0000

[...] Ten Practical Steps Towards Creating a Nozickian Utopia of Utopias, by Michael Strong [...]

By: Michael Strong Talk: Free Zones And The Cambrian Explosion In Government « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:44:42 +0000

[...] And then discusses free zones, as he’s written about earlier, as the best strategy he’s seen to get support for economic freedom and legal experimentation. He points out that free zones can operate according to different legal systems, including new legal systems (as is done in Dubai), which provides the competition in rules that we all want to see. In decades, this can lead to the atrophy of the nation state system and the achievement of our Nozickian Utopia of Utopias. [...]

By: O.T.

O.T. — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:54:53 +0000

Brilliant, Michael! Always brilliant. Thank you. I’d love some links to relevant reading.

By: O.T.

O.T. — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:51:32 +0000

Brilliant, Michael! Always brilliant. Thank you.