It’s every person in the world, connected to every other person in the world, and no one fully understands how to make best use of this new reality because no one has seen anything like it before.
Designer and entrepreneur Ben Pieratt on the Internet.
Why stop at the 51st state?
An interesting, albeit daunting, prospect has recently received some momentum in Southern California–one that would make several of its counties its own state. (Christian Science Monitor) Thirteen mostly conservative California…
Summer reading list (for the economically and politically inclined)
Other than Juggernaut, there are plenty of good, substantive books out there for the economically and politically minded to delve into this summer–on the plane, at the beach, or just…
The virtues of self-sufficiency
One of the central concepts of Juggernaut rests in the virtues of self-sufficiency. A summary can be found in the first part of the book: It can be assumed that…
New charter city in the works
(TED) Back in 2009, Paul Romer unveiled the idea for a “charter city” — a new kind of city with rules that favor democracy and trade. This year, at TED2011,…
Let’s diversify the states!
In a recent study, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University examined the laws and regulations that each of the 50 American states impose on their citizens and produced a…
Is Distributism the answer?
In John C. Médaille’s book, Toward a Truly Free Market, the argument is made that the modern system is a self-perpetuating cycle that can only lead to more regulation and…
Inventing a frontier
On his Cafe Hayek blog, esteemed economist Don Boudreaux has recently ignited a fascinating conversation on the concept of limited land, inspired by the FLOWidealism listserve. In it, the idea…
Lessons from the Bushmen
One of the central themes of Juggernaut is that of the closed economy, where alternatives have been eliminated and a people are forced to make do with the social constructs…
What Happens When Alternatives Are Eliminated?
A clip from Alain Resnais’ Mon Oncle d’Amerique shows what happens when alternatives are eliminated, both in scientific studies and fictitious real-world scenarios. Is this not our modern system in…
What happened in 1900?
Anyone who has studied political economy recognizes that something happened around the year 1900 that changed the way the Western world worked. Historian J.M. Roberts declared that 1900 was the…
Is the pursuit of wealth a zero-sum game?
Allow me to pose three questions to the inquisitive: 1. Is the pursuit of wealth a zero-sum game? 2. Is the pursuit of money a zero-sum game?