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 ...
https://bradtaylor.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/australasian-public-choice-conference/
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 not what letting a t...
https://bradtaylor.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/governing-seasteads/
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...
https://bradtaylor.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/tilly-on-government-as-organized-crime/
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 ...
https://bradtaylor.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/private-cities-and-technologies-of-liberation/
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...
https://bradtaylor.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/technology-and-public-goods/
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 genera...
https://bradtaylor.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/quote-of-the-day-anti-federalist-edition/
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 ...
https://bradtaylor.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/brutus-on-the-optimal-size-of-nations/
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...
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...
https://bradtaylor.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/blogging-at-a-thousand-nations/
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” literat...