Sublime

The result is a self-fulfilling prophecy: the less government does, the less it takes risks and manages, the less capacity it develops and the more boring it is to work for.

When Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairperson (1996–99) Brooksley Born wanted to regulate the derivatives that would later be a major cause of disaster, the PBS program Frontline detailed how she was blocked in 1998 by the triumvirate of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, and Deputy US Treasury Secr

The thesis of this book is that the massed power of the nation-state is destined to be privatized and commercialized. Like all truly radical institutional change, the privatization and commercialization of sovereignty will involve a revolution in the “common sense” of the way the world is comprehended. Such change seldom happens in a gradual, linea

Instead of state domination and control of resources, you are destined to see the privatization of almost all services governments now provide.

While the learned debate, rational actors in the market practice a de facto gold standard.

“Who should do what differently?”