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Maybe the delay in posts led you to believe the Rothbard Series was complete. The good news is that there are a few more posts to go, and the ones coming up next should be the most interesting to urbanists. If you haven’t kept up with our discussion, Murray Rothbard’s classic For [...] October 19th, 2009 | Tags: emergence, For a New Liberty, Free-market, Murray Rothbard, Private Roads, private streets, privatization, railways, standardization, Transportation | Category: infrastructure, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist, Transportation | 4 comments |
 printable viewThe Orange County Register’s Freedom Politics website (check out my rent control article FreePo published in March) features articles discussing two differing takes on road privatization from notable scholars Walter Block and Robert Poole. In Robert Poole’s article, he discusses the merits of the increasingly popular use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to [...] May 7th, 2009 | Tags: fascism, Private Roads, privatization, Public-Private Partnerships, Robert Poole, socialism, Walter Block | Category: corruption, Economics, infrastructure, privatization, Transportation | 10 comments |
printable viewChris Bradford over at Austin Contrarian has been making some solid points in favor of congestion pricing. (here, here, here and here) Chris’s core argument in favor of congestion tolling is that: congestion pricing does more than relieve congestion. Congestion pricing tells us when a road needs more capacity. Additional capacity costs money, [...] April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Chris Bradford, congestion, congestion pricing, price signals, Private Roads, taffic flow, traffic, Transportation | Category: Economics, infrastructure, privatization, sprawl, Transportation | 28 comments |
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Some other things to ponder for the next time you are sitting on a congested highway… When I talk to people about tolling roads, most people immediately reject the idea entirely. I like to ask them to think about it next time they are in a traffic jam. Hey, if you sit [...] March 16th, 2009 | Tags: congestion, congestion pricing, highways, John Stossel, Private Roads, privatization | Category: privatization, Transportation | 17 comments |
printable viewBart Frazier wrote a brief article for the Future of Freedom Foundation on private roads. He begins by discussing how most Americans remain strongly opposed to privately owned roads, while at the same time many have warmed to private education, medicine, and social security. This first part of the article is somewhat similar [...] January 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Bart Frazier, Dulles Greenway, highways, libertarian, Private Roads, roads | Category: privatization, Transportation | 18 comments |
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