For-Profit Cities vs. ACS

By Jonathan

To be clear, we’re not opposed to for-profit enterprises or to capitalism as a principle. We believe that ACS will become the crowning glory of capitalism, eventually completing it into what Adam Smith envisioned as a world of “universal opulence”, where people continue to play capitalist games as they may please, consistent with a given…

Celebration Societies or Charter Cities?

By Jonathan

There has been much discussion of Paul Romer’s charter cities, and an experiment of this sort may be taking shape in the Honduras– though not one to Romer’s liking. I expect that people will want to compare celebration society city states to charter cities. I wish to facilitate this comparison, highlighting important differences and showing…