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Vortex Openworld : freezones, freeports, free cities
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• The income derivable from the productivity enabled by freedom drives free zone creation.
• The philosophical and aesthetic good enabled by freedom inspires investors.
• Freezones, freecities, become sources of goods for the surrounding not yet free areas.
• Freezones provide relief and experimentation for governments in difficulty.
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| Explorers Foundation investments in this vortex: Openworld Institute; The Anglosphere Institute; Spencer MacCallum; The Independent Institute; World Export Processing Zone Association; Windward Foundation; Flagstaff Institute
Paul Romer, on poverty, and free cities as a way out ••• — an article in Prospect Magazine.
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 | Articles by Spencer MacCallum
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 | The Enterprise of Community •••
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| Short Perspective (on land and environment) •••
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| 392 Somalia - Clan Owned Freeports as Multi-Tenant Income Properties
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| Explorers Foundation Glyphs
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| 392 Somalia - Clan Owned Freeports as Multi-Tenant Income Properties
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| 280 The Enterprise of Community — Spencer MacCallum
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| 295 "The Champion of Hong Kong's Freedom", by Christian Wignall
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| 112 Openworld Institute — Mark Frazier
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| 409 Award for Creativity to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico — World Export Processing Zones Assocation
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| 391 Women's Empowerment Free Zones — Michael Strong, Mark Frazier
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| 433 Puerto de Anza — Ricardo Valenzuela
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| 424 Worldwide Network of Free Zones, Free Cities — Mark Frazier
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| 410 Island of Delos, 166 B.C., an early free zone — Robert C. Haywood
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| 186 Hanseatic League, complex order from flexible agreements — James C. Bennett
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| 384 Lion Rock Institute, Hong Kong
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| 282 Hong Kong, Freedom's Beachhead in China — Lion Rock Institute
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| 025 Classical Liberalism in Mexico — Ricardo Valenzuela
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| THE VOLUNTARY CITY: Choice, Community, and Civil Society - published by The Independent Institute
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| Edited by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok
Published by The Independent Institute
Foreword by Paul Johnson
Historically, the city was considered a center of commerce, knowledge and culture, a haven for safety and a place of opportunity. Today, however, cities are widely viewed as centers for crime, homelessness, poverty, unemployment, traffic, pollution, and other social ills. In many cities, government increasingly dominates life, consuming vast resources to cater to special interest groups. Decision-making has become intensely politicized, bureaucratic, and largely unaccountable to the populace.
The Voluntary City assembles a rich history and analysis of private, locally based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance. Such systems have offered superior education, transportation, housing, crime control, recreation, health care, and employment by being more effective, innovative, and responsive than those provided through special interest politics and bureaucracy.
The Voluntary City reveals how the process of providing local public goods through the dynamism of freely competitive, market-based entrepreneurship is unmatched in renewing communities and strengthening the bonds of civil society.
A refreshing challenge to the orthodoxy that government alone can improve community life, The Voluntary City will be an essential reference for anyone interested in the future of cities, including scholars and students, policy-makers, civic and business leaders, and urban citizens.
http://www.independent.org/store/book_detail.asp?bookID=17
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| Free Cities vs. Free Nations
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| The day will come when the wealth of the world is concentrated in an informal league of free cities, linked around the world and near space. The citizens of the league may from time to time come to the aid of deserving citizens of troubled nation states. —leif
The Hanseatic League [ef glyph 186]
31May08: James C. Bennett, author of the above glyph on the Hanseatic League, comments:
Free cities (independent trading cities) are interesting historically. They are almost the only places prior to the industrial revolution that we would recognize as free societies, even partially so. They would flourish for a while. Usually their wealth would attract predators, external or internal, and they would bcome just another unfree place. When they are protected by geography (island or semi-islands) they can use their wealth to buy naval power and retain their indpendence longer. Examples are Venice, Byzantium after it lost its hinterland, many Hanseatic cities, Tyre. Amsterdam was the first such city to develop a sizeable hinterland; they were able range wider and last longer because they could. They even developed land power -- no accident that Maurice of Nassau, who invented the manual of arms that transformed land warfare for 300 years, was a Dutch prince. Wealth and ingenuity beat numbers, for a while. But it wasn't until England came along that a great trading city managed to introduce its capitalist software into the surrounding countryside and make a whole nation free-trading and wealthy that the cycle of wealth-creation and subsequent predation was short-circuited. (This is Gellner's "exit" from the cycle of predation.) The great Asian free-trading cities of the 19th and 20th centuries (Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai) developed not as independent cities but as protectorates of this free-trading nation.
Free trading cities are an interesting episode in history, but it's not clear that one can be a Venice or a Hanseatic city today, or that the compromises they made then to remain independent would be possible or attractive today.
It's better, on the whole, to be a free nation.
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| "Free Cities: How about global welfare reform?" by Ken Hagerty, 04/08/2008 •••
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 | Puerta de Anza — A Door to Prosperity - A letter from Ricardo Valenzuela, June 2008
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| What is a "vortex"? An Explorers Foundation vortex is an area of research, study, discussion, learning, investment, and the kind of fellowship that arises from collaboration on an important problem/opportunity.
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| 25 July 09: Vortex Lion Rock recreated for a closer focus on China. Vortex Openworld remains more general.
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| 28 July 07: This votex was earlier named Lion Rock, after the geographical feature distinguishing Hong Kong. Mark Frazier offered to participate in this vortex, and at his suggestion we renamed it Vortex Openworld. Our respect and affection for Lion Rock remains unchanged.
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| Mark Frazier, Michael Strong, Leif Smith, Jim Bennett, Ricardo Valenzuela, Robert C. Haywood, Shannon Ewing, Spencer MacCallum, Brian Bramell, Lara Himber, Robert Himber, Ed Warner, Soleman Idd, Peter McLaughlin
To be invited: Bill Casey, Max Borders, Gary Hoover, Virginia Postrel, Karol Boudreaux, Leon Louw
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