Libertarianism.org – Finally! A non-technical, one-stop shop for the major ideas in the philosophical tradition of liberty. Cato Institute project. Governance Without a State: Policies and Politics in Areas of Limited Statehood (Columbia UP) – File under “order in anarchy.” Mostly European scholars giving somewhat different takes than you get with the UK-US “economics of [...]
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Briefly Noted
Posted in development, institutions, libertarianism, tagged anarchy, Libertarianism on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Stability, Peace, and Poverty
Posted in development, institutions, tagged development, failed states, foreign aid, state weakness on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The last issue of The Economist has a feature on “middle-income fragile and failed states” (MIFFs). It compares the World Bank list of countries by development level (high, middle, and low) to the OECD list of “fragile and failed states,” finding that fragile and failed states are by no means exclusively low-income: [S]ome 15 of [...]

