dynamic geography

Recommended Reading for The Seastead View Of Politics

Hey everyone, I just wanted to remind those who don’t follow our sister blog Let A Thousand Nations Bloom that it has a great list of recommended reading for background in my unique angle on political theory and public choice, with writing by Mancur Olson, David Friedman, Arnold Kling, and many others, including myself.

Recommended Seastead Political Reading Here

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Latest posts on Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Just a reminder that all our fascinating political theory and social commentary about diverse visions of a better society has moved to Let A Thousand Nations Bloom. Here are some recent posts:

  • Thinking Like a Dandelion – _”Let’s focus less on trying to perpetuate one copy of what we believe is the best society and instead work on ways to decrease the costs of producing societies. The results will be better than we can imagine.

US Navy working on seasteads

We are not the only ones to recognize the opportunities offered by the ocean’s dynamic geography. From The Economist:

Foreign military bases have both political and practical difficulties. “Seabasing” may offer a solution

BASING troops and equipment on foreign soil is fraught with difficulty. Even friendly countries can cut up rough at crucial moments, as America found when Turkey restricted the use of its territory and airspace during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The Law Market

Legal research volunteer Jorge Schmidt pointed me at this new book which describes a trend which seasteading will accelerate:

Today, a California resident can incorporate her shipping business in Delaware, register her ships in Panama, hire her employees from Hong Kong, place her earnings in an asset-protection trust formed in the Cayman Islands, and enter into a same-sex marriage in Massachusetts or Canada–all the while enjoying the California sunshine and potentially avoiding many facets of the state’s laws.

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