Recommended
Key Pieces:
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities (Mancur Olson – Book)
The Machinery of Freedom (David Friedman – book. A few chapters are free online)- Competitive Government vs. Democratic Government (Arnold Kling – PDF article)
- Beyond Folk Activism (Patri Friedman – Online Essay. Danish Translation available.)
Full list of recommended reading
(including books, blog entries, and papers available on the web)
Recommended books for seasteading, as an Amazon List
By Randy Barnett
By Bryan Caplan
- The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (New Edition)
- Policy All the Way Down
By David Friedman
By Patri Friedman
- Beyond Folk Activism (Danish Translation available).
- Dynamic Geography
- Russ Roberts discusses Seasteading with Patri on EconTalk.
- Patri presents his ideas to the Mises Institute Conference in Brazil (Video)
- The Difference Between Governments and Private Property Developers
- It’s Not an Accident Nice Places to Live Have High Taxes
- What Happens When the Police Go on Strike?
- Many Cops, Not None
- Governmental Innovation and the Wisdom of Crowds
By Arnold Kling:
- Competitive Government vs. Democratic Government
- We Need 250 States
- Why Not Have Profit-Maximizing Governments?
- David Friedman on the Myth of the Rational Voter
By Jacob Lyles
- Rampant Moldbuggery
- Feed the Leeches More Blood–Get Better Leeches
- Down With Policy Libertarianism
- Structuralism 2
- Different Libertarianisms
By Mencius Moldbug
By H.L. Mencken
By Robert Nelson
By Robert Nozick
By Mancur Olson
- The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
- The Logic of Collective Action
By Jonathan Rauch
Government’s End: Why Washington Stopped Working – applies Mancur Olson’s theories to the government of the USA in the 20th century.
By Paul Romer
- A Theory of History With an Application–Romer’s talk at the Long Now Foundation
- TED Talk
- Technology, Rules and Progress
- Economic Growth–from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
- Russ Roberts discusses Charter Cities with Romer on EconTalk
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty by Sebastian Mallaby–a very good profile of Romer’s efforts to get his Charter Cities idea off the ground.
Edited by Edward Stringham
By Michael Strong
- Free Zones as an Additional Option for the Cambrian Explosion in Government
- Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems
- Michael Strong’s talk on Free Zones at the 2009 Seasteading Conference
By Jonathan Wilde
Mike Gibson
Jonathan Wilde
patrissimo
Guest Blogger
Will Chamberlain
flowidealism
Brad Taylor
