Free
Market Transportation: Denationalizing the Roads
by Walter Block
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Liberate the Roads! The
Benefits That Will Come from Road Privatisation
by Martin Ball
Describes the benefits of road privatization to the user and to the
environment.
Libertarian
solutions: private highways: a solution whose time has come (again)?
by Daniel Klein
"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."
A Note About Roads
by Richard O. Hammer
Observations on the history of roads.
A Practical
Proposal for Privatizing the Highways (and Other Natural Monopolies)
by Bryan Caplan
This proposal involves giving every adult citizen (1) a common stock
certificate that entitles him to a share of the privatized road
corporation's profits and (2) another certificate that allows the
individual to operate one motor vehicle on the highways in exchange
for an annual fee.
Private highways: A
solution whose time has come (again)?
by Daniel Klein
Private roads worked in the past and they can work again.
Private Highways
by stormy MON
Part of an online book, Imagine Freedom, which attacks government
and religion.
The Private Ownership
of Public Space: The New Age of Rationally Priced Road Use
by Brian Micklethwait
Describes the economic benefits of private roads.
Private Roads,
Competition, Automobile Insurance and Price Controls
by Walter Block
Shows that the benefits of competition for improving roadways cannot
take place unless the roadways are privatized.
Protection from Mass
Murderers: Communication of Danger: A Formulation
by Richard O. Hammer
A nation in which individuals make the rules of conduct on their own
property and where most property, including roads, is privately owned,
would evolve into a social network that is better able to control
psychopaths than the present system.
Should Government
Build the Railroads?
by Burton Folsom, Jr.
The people of Michigan learned through bitter experience that the
state should not be a party to any works of internal improvement
such as canals and railroads. So they re-wrote their constitution
to outlaw such activity by the state, and they sold the railroads
to private entrepreneurs.
Solving America's
spectrum crisis
by Adam D. Thierer
"Property rights, private contracts, and the common law govern
disputes over tangible property in America. It's time to apply
this same time-tested logic to the electromagnetic spectrum."
Theories
of Highway Safety
by Walter Block
Explains why privately owned highways would be safer.
Water
Markets
by National Center for Policy Analysis
Summary of a study done by Terry Anderson and Pamela Snyder in which
they argue for market pricing of water resources.
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