What if we could redesign society from scratch? The promise of charter cities

19/02/2024 12 min

Escuchar "What if we could redesign society from scratch? The promise of charter cities"

Síntesis del Episodio

Por Rational Animations

Improving a nation's institutions and governance can be a powerful way to boost economic growth and lift millions out of poverty. Unfortunately, governance change is difficult and slow, and we don't have easy ways to experiment with new forms of governance. But Nobel Prize economist Paul Romer had an idea: what if we could build semi-independent cities with their own rules and legislations, where people can freely move to? This is the core idea of charter cities.

Paul Romer's Charter Cities Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/mSHBma0Ithk
Paul Romer's Essay on Charter Cities: https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/113646/1423916_file_TechnologyRulesProgress_FINAL.pdf

Prospera - A Charter City in Honduras: https://www.prospera.co/
Prospera Overview by Astral Codex Ten: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/prospectus-on-prospera
Charter Cities Institute Research: https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/category/research/
Introduction to Charter Cities: https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/intro/
Charter Cities Podcasts: https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/category/podcast/
Global Startup Cities Map: https://www.startupcitiesmap.com/map

The Financial Times on Itana: https://www.ft.com/content/7a0419bf-e76f-4abb-8024-043ee24e4382

Criticism and issues of charter cities:
- https://devpolicy.org/why-charter-cities-have-failed-20190716/
- https://nationalpost.com/news/year-in-ideas-professor-touts-special-economic-zones-known-as-charter-cities

Economic Inequality Data: https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality#the-history-of-global-economic-inequality
Singapore's GDP Per Capita: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=SG
Life Expectancy in Singapore: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SGP/singapore/life-expectancy
Education and Its Role in Singapore's Success: https://thesocialtalks.com/blog/education-and-singapore/

Why Nations Fail - Wikipedia Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nations_Fail

Nigeria's Electricity Grid Issues: https://theconversation.com/why-nigerias-electricity-grid-collapses-and-how-to-shore-it-up-179705
Debt Crisis in Nigerian Electricity Companies: https://guardian.ng/news/discos-face-imminent-collapse-wallow-in-debt/

UN Report on Urban Population Growth: https://www.un.org/en/desa/around-25-billion-more-people-will-be-living-cities-2050-projects-new-un-report
Risks of Rapid Urbanization in Developing Countries: https://www.zurich.com/en/knowledge/topics/global-risks/the-risks-of-rapid-urbanization-in-developing-countries
Population Growth in Lagos: https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22007/lagos/population

🟠 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rationalanimations
🔵 Channel membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqt1RE0k0MIr0LoyJRy2lg/join
🟤 Ko-fi, for one-time and recurring donations: https://ko-fi.com/rationalanimations

Discord: https://discord.gg/RationalAnimations
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RationalAnimations/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/RationalAnimat1

You are too many to fit in the description, so we've put you here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X8n7opPsOeWaT1HwGM12_LDjAghct9w6NQFDSiOPjIM/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks to all of you!
Directed by:
Evan Streb - @vezanmatics

Más episodios del podcast Chascas Largas: Freedom Archives