Roads under Anarchism


The basic issue: are there adequate economic incentives for private corporations to build roads sufficient to meet the demands of business and consumers?


8/29/2001 Drowning In Pavement
Robert Hutchinson on the ridiculousness of State ownership of roads.


Free Market Articles that match your search

Mises Review Articles that match your search

Daily Articles that match your search


LP Victory Fund



http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/library/intro/faq/sp001627.txt

Freedom Network Search Results
Displaying 8 of 8 matching records starting with match 1.

Commercializing highways
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Robert W. Poole, Jr.
Country: United States 
"Once state agencies become more comfortable dealing with highway concession companies on a large scale, and the capital markets have more experience financing a variety of tolled projects, the next stage will be turning over existing highways, for rebuilding and modernization as toll roads, with value-added electronic services." (08/20/01)
For more like this, see Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews; Privatization; United States.
Libertarian solutions: private highways: a solution whose time has come (again)?
Source: LP News
Author: Daniel Klein
Country: United States
"Private ownership of 'public' resources may be an idea whose time has come. There are proposals for the privatization of Grand Coulee Dam, Dulles airport, Conrail, and Amtrak. State and local governments are studying private urban transit, garbage collection, and prisons. If privatization maintains its momentum, we will have to consider a logical candidate: the roads." (01/98)
For more like this, see Introductions and FAQs; Contemporary Libertarianism; United States.

How to build our way out of congestion
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Peter Samuel and Robert W. Poole, Jr.
Country: United States

The Reason Institute project team offers a convincing account of how automobile detection technology and highway-use markets could be used to reduce traffic on congested highways. (7/99)
For more like this, see Scholarly and In-Depth Studies; Urban Sprawl; Global.

What is not seen
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Tibor R. Machan
Country: United States

Citing railroads, the TVA, and interstate highways, Michael Kelley of "The Atlantic Monthly" says government has done wonders for us. Tibor Machan raises the question: At what cost? (06/12/01)
For more like this, see Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews; Contemporary Libertarianism; Global.

Senate threatened with slowdown over Mexican truck dispute
Source: Fox News/AP
Country: United States

Supporters of President Bush's effort to open American highways to Mexican trucks are threatening to slow Senate work to a crawl unless legislators drop efforts to impose burdensome safety requirements. (07/25/01)
For more like this, see News Reports; Regulation and Deregulation; United States.

1. Freedom Daily   
Abstract: Highway to Collapse: Spending on Infrastructure: Jacob G. Hornberger, April 1993
/freedom/0493a.htm
size 11311 bytes - 10/30/99 2:54:53 AM GMT

1. Freedom Daily   
Abstract: The United States Forest Service: The World's Largest Socialized Road-Building Company: Michael Peterson, May 1993
/freedom/0593e.htm
size 8432 bytes - 10/30/99 1:30:34 PM GMT
2. Freedom Daily   
Abstract: For Starters, What Is Government?: by Stu Pritchard, M.D., August 1996
/freedom/0896f.htm
size 6574 bytes - 10/30/99 10:45:02 AM GMT

HIGHWAY AGGRAVATION:THE CASE FOR PRIVATIZING THE HIGHWAYS
Policy Analysis No. 231 June 27, 1995 HIGHWAY AGGRAVATION: THE CASE FOR PRIVATIZING THE HIGHWAYS by Peter Samuel Peter Samuel is a freelance journalist who writes on regulatory affairs. His work appears ...
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-231.html - size 113.4K

Toll Road To Nowhere
August 21, 2001 Toll Road To Nowhere by Patrick J. Michaels Patrick J. Michaels is senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute and author of " The Satanic Gases. " Road ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/08-21-01.html - size 6.9K

Dear Governor Gilmore: A Plan to End Gridlock (Commentary)
August 28, 1999 Dear Governor Gilmore: A Plan to End Gridlock by Jerry Taylor and Peter VanDoren Jerry Taylor is director of natural resources studies at the Cato ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/08-28-99.html - size 8.7K

THE SMOG-REDUCTION ROAD: REMOTE SENSING vs. THE CLEAN AIR ACT
Policy Analysis No. 249 February 7, 1996 THE SMOG-REDUCTION ROAD: REMOTE SENSING vs. THE CLEAN AIR ACT by Daniel B. Klein and Pia Maria Koskenoja Daniel B. Klein is an assistant ...
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-249.html - size 134.6K

Let Investors Finance the Highways
THIS JUST IN.. November 7, 1996 Let Investors Finance the Highways by Peter Samuel Peter Samuel is a free-lance writer specializing in transportation issues and author of Cato ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/11-07-96.html - size 5.4K

Give Motorists a Tax Break (Commentary)
by Stephen Moore Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute. What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/12-02-97.html - size 7.5K

How Government Highway Policy Encourages Sprawl (Commentary)
August 18, 1998 How Government Highway Policy Encourages Sprawl by Howard P. Wood Howard P. Wood is a transportation writer in Washington, D.C. T wo schools of thought ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/8-18-98.html - size 9.0K

Speed Doesn't Kill (Commentary)
May 28, 1999 Speed Doesn't Kill by Stephen Moore Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute. This article is condensed from his new study, " Speed Doesn ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/05-28-99a.html - size 6.8K
43%
28 May 99
Find Similar

An Issue Running on Empty (Commentary)
March 22, 2000 An Issue Running on Empty by Stephen Moore Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute. I t was an economically sensible and ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/03-22-00.html - size 6.7K
43%
24 Mar 00
Find Similar

HOT Lanes: A Better Way to Attack Urban Highway Congestion (Commentary)
June 8, 2000 HOT Lanes: A Better Way to Attack Urban Highway Congestion by Robert W. Poole Jr. and C. Kenneth Orski Robert W. Poole Jr. is director of transportation ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-08-00.html - size 6.0K
42%
08 Jun 00
Find Similar

Signs of Insecurity (Commentary)
June 19, 1999 Signs of Insecurity by Casey J. Lartigue Jr. Casey J. Lartigue Jr. is a staff writer at the Cato Institute. R eturning to America after spending several years in Korea and ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-19-99.html - size 5.3K
40%
21 Jun 99
Find Similar

EPA Funds Anti-Sprawl Politics with Tax Dollars (Commentary)
February 25, 2000 EPA Funds Anti-Sprawl Politics with Tax Dollars by Randal O'Toole Randal O'Toole is senior economist with the Oregon-based Thoreau Institute and the ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/02-25-00.html - size 6.4K
40%
25 Feb 00
Find Similar

Keep the Car Tax Promise (Commentary)
November 28, 2000 Keep the Car Tax Promise by Stephen Moore Stephen Moore is an adjunct fellow at the Cato Institute. I t seems like just yesterday that Jim Gilmore became a ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/11-28-00.html - size 5.9K
40%
28 Nov 00
Find Similar

Here Come the Federal Cell Phone Cops
June 25, 2001 Here Come the Federal Cell Phone Cops by Adam D. Thierer Adam D. Thierer is the director of telecommunications studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Just when you ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/06-25-01.html - size 6.7K
40%
25 Jun 01
Find Similar

House Vote Erects Roadblock to U.S.-Mexican Trade
August 15, 2001 House Vote Erects Roadblock to U.S.-Mexican Trade by Daniel T. Griswold Daniel T. Griswold is associate director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the ...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/08-15-01.html - size 7.3K
40%
15 Aug 01
Find Similar

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-346es.html
Cato Policy Analysis No. 346 May 31, 1999 Speed Doesn’t Kill The Repeal of the 55-MPH Speed Limit by Stephen Moore Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute. Executive Summary In 1995 the Republican ...
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-346es.html - size 4.6K
40%
11 Feb 00
Find Similar