Comments on: Secession As Startup: Providing Examples & Competition

By: Canada Day Weekend Reading: The Economy | Invest It Wisely

Canada Day Weekend Reading: The Economy | Invest It Wisely — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:33:06 +0000

[...] Let A Thousand Nations Bloom is running a series on secession, and has a few interesting posts up, such as American Indian sovereignty, economic secession, and creating new states as examples and competition for the rest. [...]

By: Party Every Day « Can't Win For Losing

Party Every Day « Can't Win For Losing — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:07:02 +0000

[...] Looking at governments in economic terms: secession as start-ups. [...]

By: The Messenger

The Messenger — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:59:23 +0000

http://twitter.com/UOJim/status/17379402026
Patri Friedman says early USA had “empty frontier.” After we killed those other bastards, he means?

By: How America is Like Twitter « ifnormation

How America is Like Twitter « ifnormation — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:53:04 +0000

[...] : "http%3A%2F%2Fifnormation.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F30%2Fhow-america-is-like-twitter%2F" } Really interesting post from Patri Friedman (relative of Milton Friedman), Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute, [...]

By: teageegeepea

teageegeepea — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:46:28 +0000

Paul Romer had an interesting talk I hadn’t seen before at the Long Now foundation where he bemoans the lack of new startups in governance with analogy to market competition:
http://fora.tv/2009/05/18/Paul_Romer_A_Theory_of_History_with_an_Application

By: Small Is Innovative « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Small Is Innovative « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:59:54 +0000

[...] my post yesterday comparing the early American state to a startup, I talked about how some of the benefit of a new country with a new political system is to serve as [...]

By: Bill Jones

Bill Jones — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:56:06 +0000

“It was an experiment with a more radical form of democracy than existed anywhere in the 18th-century world.”

Are you sure about this?

What was going on in Iceland at this time?

By: Secession As Startup: Providing Examples & Competition « Secession and Nullification — News & Information

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:43:08 +0000

[...] Providing Examples & Competition Posted on June 29, 2010 by Bill Miller This article by Patrissimo on aThousandNations.com. Trial and error and the growth of what works and ending of what doesn’t is how a healthy [...]

By: Bryan Mitchell

Bryan Mitchell — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:42:13 +0000

You left out an important part of the early American Experiment. The Articles of Confederation, the first from of government the Founding Fathers tried, were practically a backlash from monarchy. They left no room for centralized power. When Shays’ Rebellion highlighted the need for some central authority, the states went back to the drawing board and eventually came out with the Constitution.

The important part was that enough people saw a need to change the governmental structure and made the change peacefully. I know that’s not the main focus of change being discussed here, but that period is worth mentioning.

By: Secession Week « Brad Taylor’s Blog

Secession Week « Brad Taylor’s Blog — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:27:51 +0000

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