Liberdade, Incentivos e Cidades

Um interessante artigo de Brandon Fuller e Paul Romer sobre criacao de cidades: Today, human beings have an opportunity to re-create the frontier conditions that give people new and better options. What’s more, we can do so without the use of conquest or coercion. If some societies are unable to establish rules that guarantee safety and job opportunities for their citizens, people should have the chance to opt in to places with better rules, as the Quakers could when they left Europe for Pennsylvania. A way forward would be to follow a modern version of Penn’s example: using unoccupied land to charter new cities. These cities would compete for migrants; in fact, their leaders would have to design and enforce rules that made the cities attractive places, where people could find employment, send their children to school, and live without fear of violence, crime, and preventable illness.