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Australasian Public Choice Conference 4 Dec 2010 | 03:48 pm
I realise this blog has become nothing more than a venue for shameless self-promotion, but I’m okay with that. I’ll be attending the Australasian Public Choice Conference next week. I’ll be presentin...
Governing Seasteads 10 Nov 2010 | 01:42 pm
[Cross-posted at LaTNB] The Seasteading Institute has just published my paper on governance mechanisms for seasteads. As I point out in the paper, trying to predict what will work ahead of time is no...
Tilly on Government as Organized Crime 2 Sep 2010 | 02:58 pm
The argument that government is a bit like an extremely-successful mob isn’t new, but Charles Tilly makes the argument better than most: Apologists for particular governments and for government in ge...
Private Cities and Technologies of Liberation 17 Jul 2010 | 03:58 pm
If you’re reading this blog and not Let A Thousand Nations Bloom, there’s something wrong with you. That’s where I’m doing my substantive blogging – though that’s admittedly not very frequent lately. ...
Technology and Public Goods 16 Jul 2010 | 08:45 am
As a wise man once taught me in a public choice class, excludability depends on the state of technology. Example:1 the Pay & Sit park bench. Design student Fabian Brunsing has devised a fiendish devi...
Quote of the Day: Anti-Federalist Edition 5 Jul 2010 | 11:32 am
When the public is called to investigate and decide upon a question in which not only the present members of the community are deeply interested, but upon which the happiness and misery of generations...
Brutus on the Optimal Size of Nations 30 Jun 2010 | 07:14 am
In a republic, the manners, sentiments, and interests of the people should be similar. If this be not the case, there will be a constant clashing of opinions; and the representatives of one part will ...
Secession Week 29 Jun 2010 | 10:27 am
If you’re a fan of political decentralization, you should check out Secession Week at Let A Thousand Nations Bloom. Today’s topic is “Introduction: Independence Is Better Than Revolution”, and there a...
Blogging at A Thousand Nations 21 Jun 2010 | 04:17 pm
I’ve been doing some blogging at Let A Thousand Nations Bloom. I only have a couple of posts so far: one short post on Gibraltar succumbing to international pressure not to compete on taxes and anothe...
Reasonable Homunculi Can Disagree: The Impossibility of Welfare Economics 30 May 2010 | 02:03 pm
I’ve just uploaded a new working paper, which is a slightly edited version of a chapter from my thesis, to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This paper draws on the “preference reversal” literature in psych...
