Studies in Emergent Order is pleased to publish “My ‘Country’ Lies over the Ocean: Seasteading and Polycentric Law” by Allen Mendenhall and “Technology and the Architecture of Emergent Order” by Scott A. Beaulier, Daniel J. Smith, and Daniel Sutter. Allen Mendenhall’s paper considers the implications of the Seasteading Institute upon notions of law and sovereignty and argues […]
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Studies in Emergent Order is pleased to publish “The Theater of Tensions” by Troy Earl Camplin and “The Problem of Injustice: Toward Pragmatic Libertarian Answers” by Laurent Dobuzinskis. Troy Camplin’s paper is an examination of how theaters exist in several overlapping spontaneous orders. Theaters receive their funding though philanthropy, the market, and the democratic process, and […]
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Studies in Emergent Order is pleased to publish “Polycentric Democracy and Its Enemies” by David Emanuel Andersson and “Double Heuristics and Collective Knowledge: the Case of Expertise” by Stephen Turner. David Emanuel Andersson’s paper is an examination of how polycentric liberal democracies are created by people and resources relocating from jurisdictions with substandard public-policy bundles by […]
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Studies in Emergent Order is pleased to publish “Towards a Research Agenda on the Emergence of (Informal) Constitutional Culture into (Formal) Constitutional Order” by Nikolai G. Wenzel and “Science, the Market and Iterative Knowledge” by David F. Hardwick and Leslie Marsh. Nikolai G. Wenzel’s paper is an examination of how constitutional choice, institutional stickiness, and the […]
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When I first got interested in the social sciences and philosophy it was in large part because I had been repeatedly told as a high school conservative that we were engaged in a “war of ideas.” Further, in the long run ideas would triumph. It was important to know our case deeply if we were […]
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Studies in Emergent Order is proud to publish a symposium on Professor Richard Wagner’s Mind, Society, and Human Action: Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy. Dr. Wagner’s book explains how economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others […]
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One of the least explored yet most important aspects of how spontaneous orders manifest in the modern world is that of the tensions between them, tensions that undermine the traditional classical liberal vision of harmony arising out of voluntary interactions. A fascinating example is that of the tensions between the incentives rewarded by the market […]
December 30, 2012
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