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Showing posts with label decentralization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decentralization. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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Bill Whittle points the way to the future (H/t Mairi):
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Secession Party

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The Secession Party Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.* The United States of America has become too large and needs to be broken in two. As well, Ne...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

EU Can Learn from South Carolina

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Ron Holland has another excellent blog on the Lew Rockwell site .  Holland starts by noting: "The state of South Carolina has been ...
Monday, March 22, 2010

I Am a Confederate Now

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I am a Confederate now. I no longer believe in the union. I believe in the Tenth Amendment and the Articles of Confederation. My heroes now ...
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Monday, November 2, 2009

Only A Divided House Will Stand

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis has a good discussion of Marc Faber's prediction of economic collapse in 2012. I don't th...
Sunday, August 2, 2009

The World Wide Web, Syndicalism and the New Market for News

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The news is dead. There is no news because the amount of information exceeds the abilities of journalists. Paradigms, or applicable models ...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Decentralization as the Remedy for Majority Faction

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In the Federalist Number 10 James Madison made his famous argument that the size of the United States would limit the extent to which a majo...
Monday, June 8, 2009

De Jouvenal on State Sovereignty

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Decentralization is a managerial tool that has proven to be essential to conglomerates and other large organizations. With respect to politi...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

De Jouvenal on the Public Loss Function

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The notion of a loss function is the basis of total quality management. Quality losses appear when the realization of an output deviates fro...
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Friday, April 10, 2009

The Unity Philosophy Failed Because Laissez Faire Succeeded

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In the US, the notion that there needs to be a strong central state began with the Federalist Papers. The Federalists left a considerable de...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Federalist's Argument for Union

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John Jay, Federalist No. 5: "Should the people of America divide themselves into three or four nations, would not...jealousies arise? I...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Jan Tinbergen on Decentralization

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Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist who won the Nobel prize in economics. His brother, Nikolaas, won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medici...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Decentralization, Banking and the Two Party System

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The American party system has changed four times, and three of the changes were linked to money and banking. Moreover, three of the changes ...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Rationality and Decentralization in Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws

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In his famous article "The Nature of the Firm", Ronald Coase claimed that firms exist because they are cost minimizing. It is chea...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Glamour and Barack Obama in David Riesmann's Lonely Crowd

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Riesmann (e.g., p. 188) emphasizes the role of the media in creating other-directedness. The inner-directed carry production-related values...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Hamilton on the Limits of Decentralization

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Federalism has always meant a partnership among the states and between the states and the federal government. Just as there are certain publ...
Monday, June 30, 2008

The Federalist 14 and Decentralizaton

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In the Federalist 14, Madison argues that while direct democracy is possible only in a small country, a republic can cover a larger geograph...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Publius on Localization of America

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Let's do a thought experiment. Let's say the federal government agreed to download most of its responsibilities, such as social secu...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Woodrow Wilson's Constitutional Government in the United States

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Woodrow Wilson. Constitutional Government in the United States . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004. (Original published 1908)....
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