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Culture, sovereignty, and the rule of law: lessons from Indian country
The rule of law is a process whereby the citizens—society—are in a race with the state—government—to thread the needle between anarchy and despotism, or to live in “the narrow corridor,” as Acemoglu and Robinson (2019, Penguin Books) call it. In the narrow corridor, private and collective institutions balance the coercive power of the state necessary to prevent citizens from taking from one another with private control of resources and exchange that create gains from trade. We argue that pre-contact Native Americans, as residual claimants of rents created by rules of law embedded in cultural practices that achieved this balance, were able to build healthy economies based on clear property rights and exchange. During the early period of European contact, American Indians and Europeans continued to abide by rules of law that encouraged trading rather than raiding. By the nineteenth century, however, rules imposed by the federal government declared Indians to be “wards” of the state and replaced productive trading rules of law with predatory rent-seeking rules. Settler governments justified rent seeking on the grounds that tribal customs and cultures were lawless and inefficient, but a deeper understanding suggests that those more local institutions represented a rule of law that balanced collective action and private action in ways that encouraged investment and exchange. Ironically, federal laws have suppressed Indian liberties, caused abject poverty, and left jurisdictional gaps in the rule of law that have enabled disorder. We conclude that the path back to the narrow corridor requires granting American Indians the sovereignty that will make tribes residual claimants of rents created by productive rules of law of their own making.
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Free market environmentalism for the next generation
\"Free market environmentalism is an optimistic paradigm for linking dynamic environments with dynamic economies using property rights and markets to provide incentives for good resource stewardship. This book provides a new paradigm for environmentalism, offering examples of how free market environmentalism is working and confronting the limits of markets.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The political economy of American Indian policy: introduction to a special issue
Historically and currently, federal policies governing American Indian country do not typically resemble policies that economists think would stimulate economic and cultural prosperity. This special issue employs Public Choice and New Institutional Economics to analyze the origins and consequences of these policies. This approach, which emphasizes rent seeking, government failure, and formal and informal institutions offers new insights into the understanding of persistent barriers to prosperity and sovereignty in Indian country and what changes might be necessary to break down the obstacles.
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The 1990s and Anything Goes America
During the 1990s the nation witnessed the rise of a culture that this essay labels Anything Goes America. The seeds of this era had been planted in the 1970s with the development and expansion of women's, gay, and sexual liberation movements. Over the next generation those seeds slowly germinated until the 1990s when they bloomed with TV sitcoms, reality television, and shock jock radio that presented a barrage of obscenity, sex, and for the first time even the F-word. Added to this mix was the rise of the World Wide Web, internet, dot.com revolution, new networks, rap music, even the pharmaceutical development of Viagra. Anything Goes America was boosted primetime by two events that contributed to the rise of Infotainment--the \"Trial of the Century\" of football star O.J. Simpson and the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
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Skaar : son of Hulk - the complete collection
Born in fire. Raised by monsters. Destined to smash! On an alien planet shattered by war, no one is stronger than Skaar -- the savage Son of Hulk! But as a warlord and a princess spread chaos through the wastelands, will Skaar save the puny survivors -- or eat them? Skaar seeks the mysterious Old Power, but can even he stop the coming of the Silver Surfer-and Galactus the Devourer? The soothsayers sing: One day, monsters will clash -- the boy will confront the man who abandoned him. When the Son of Hulk seeks vengeance on his father, will Earth be turned into Planet Skaar?
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Unlocking the wealth of indian nations
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies by creating institutions that reward productivity and entrepreneurship and that establish tribal governments that are capable of providing a stable rule of law. The chapters in this volume document the involvement of indigenous people in market economies long before European contact, provide evidence on how the wealth of Indian Nations has been held hostage to bureaucratic red tape, and explains how their wealth can be unlocked through self-determination and sovereignty.
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Greener than thou
In a powerful argument for free market environmentalism, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist. They show that, by forming local coalitions around market principles, stereotypes are replaced by pragmatic solutions that improve environmental quality without necessarily increasing red tape.
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