Curiously enough, today I was listening to Doug North make a difference between limited access societies and open access societies, and one of the main points of difference is that in the latter there is competition not only between buyers and sellers but between systems of governance. This is very relatable to the topic which I discussed with Michael Strong in this interview, that of the institutional basis of the free cities project.
This past weekend, a group of scholars got together in Roatán, Bay Islands, Honduras, to discuss multiple proposals to modify institutional arrangements in order to make our society one that is more prosperous and respectful of individual rights. It was held in Honduras because our neighboring country has gone so far as to modify the Constitution in order to make it possible for one of these chartered cities to arrive as an opt-in alternative to engage in productive activity within a freer set of general rules.
Michael was one of the guests to the event, and if you want to get a glimpse of the ideas that were discussed, I suggest you take a look at the blog (A Thousand Nations Bloom) he started with Patri Friedman and other members of the Seasteading Institute.
There, he’s written in defense of Free Cities as a path to a “Nozickian Utopia of Utopias”.
I hope you enjoy the interview.
[...] 8, 2011 por Luis Eduardo Barrueto As an appendix to the interview with Michael Strong we published recently, I must write about a topic I trimmed out of the video due to [...]