In the last post, we discussed the first paragraphs of chapter 11 of Murray Rothbard’s For A New Liberty. (available free from Mises.org as pdf, web page, and audio book) Those paragraphs discussed the private ownership of all land, including streets and roads. Rothbard clearly and concisely argues that private ownership of streets would [...]
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June 18th, 2009 | Tags: For a New Liberty, forestalling, Murray Rothbard, privatization | Category: Economics, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist | 6 comments |  printable viewAt Streetsblog, Ryan Avent presented a scorching attack on the most notorious free-market impostor – Randal O’Toole: Taking Liberties With the Facts for his consistent hypocrisy: The Cato Institute’s Randal O’Toole gets under the skin of many of those interested in building a more rational and green metropolitan geography, but in many ways he’s [...] June 4th, 2009 | Tags: gas tax, Highway, Randal O'Toole, subsidization, Transportation | Category: Free-market impostors, infrastructure, sprawl, Transportation | 65 comments | printable viewIt turns out the entire Chapter 11 called “The Public Sector, II: Streets and Roads” is actually a chapter on Market Urbanism. Bryan Caplan considers this chapter “the least convincing chapter in the book”, but as a Market Urbanist, I strongly disagree. I do admit that his discussion of safety and policing of private local streets involves a great deal of speculation and reliance on faith in the action of individual agents, but the insights into road subsidization and land-use patterns was decades ahead of its time. These insights may not seem so radical now, but imagine the resistance to these ideas in the days before urbanism gained much credibility. [...] June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: For a New Liberty, Jane Jacobs, Murray Rothbard, private streets, privatization, safety | Category: Economics, infrastructure, planning, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist, Transportation, zoning | 6 comments | printable view |
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