Wendy Brown, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (New York: Zone Books, 2010), 22.
Yesille Ponce, "En Honduras Haremos Nuestra Primera Ciudad Modelo," Diaro La Prensa De Honduras, September 17, 2012, →; Patri Friedman "The Big Picture" (lecture, Seasteading Institute Conference, San Francisco, June 1, 2012).
Patri Friedman, ibid.
The term skunkworks designates an experimental laboratory or department of a company or institution.
Sebastian Mallaby, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty,” The Atlantic, July 2010 →.
Derived from Roman law, "jus sanguinis" attributes citizenship within a given state by the citizenship of a subject's parents.
Derived from Roman law, "jus sanguinis" attributes citizenship within a given state by the citizenship of a subject's parents.
Paul M. Romer, “Economic Growth,” in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, 2nd ed. (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund Inc., 2007) →.
The Central American—Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) was established in 2006 between the United States and El Salvador, and has since grown to incorporate five other signatories: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Paul Romer and Brandon Fuller, Success and the City: How Charter Cities Could Transform the Developing World (Ottawa: MacDonald-Laurier Institute, 2012) →.
Greg Lindsay, “Are Charter Cities the Cities of the Future?” Co.Exist, August 24, 2012 →.
Paul Romer and Octavio Sanchez, “Urban prosperity in the RED,” Globe and Mail →.
Paul Romer, “Why the World Needs Charter Cities,” speech, TEDGlobal 2009, Oxford, July 2009 →.
Duncan Green, “Honduras Is Building a Charter City? This Is Never Going to Work,” From Poverty to Power (blog), December 21, 2011 →.
“Hong Kong in Honduras,” The Economist, December 10, 2011 →.
David Ellerman, “New Instant Cities: The Über-Planners of Libertarianism,” ellerman.org →.
Adam Davidson, “Who Wants to Buy Honduras?” New York Times, May 8, 2012 →.
Wendy Brown, Walled States, 42, 87.
David Ellerman, “New Instant Cities.”
Paul Romer, “The World’s First Charter City?” speech, TED2011, Long Beach, March 2011 →.
Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 2.
Robert Lucas, “On the Mechanics of Economic Development.” Journal of Monetary Economics vol. 22, no. 1 (1988): 36–39.
See David Ellerman, “New Instant Cities.”
Friedrich A. Von Hayek, The Counter-Revolution of Science (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund Inc., 1980) →.
“LEAP Zones: A Legal, Economic, Administrative and Political Framework for Free Cities,” interview with Mark Klugmann, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala, April 20, 2012 →.
Friedrich A. Von Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973), 51.
Greg Lindsay, “Former ‘Seasteaders’ Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle,” Co.Exist, October 31, 2011 →.
The Shock Doctrine, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón, and Naomi Klein (Klein Lewis Productions, 2007).
Mark Weisbrot, “Legacy of Honduran Coup Still Threatens Democracy in Latin America,” Huffington Post, July 02, 2012 →.
“Preface,” Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Good, vol. 1, Freedom Lights Our World (F.L.O.W.), 2008.
John Mackey, “Winning the Battle for Freedom and Prosperity,” speech, FreedomFest, Las Vegas, May 13, 2004 →.
Tim Fernholz, “Behind the race to build utopian city-states in the Honduran Jungle,” Quartz, October 10, 2012 →.
Yesille Ponce, “En Honduras Haremos Nuestra Primera Ciudad Modelo.”
Michael Strong, “Marketing Free Cities as a Mainstream Solution to Global Poverty” (lecture, The Future of Free Cities Conference, Roatán, Honduras, April 3, 2011) →.
Keller Easterling, “Zone,” extrastatecraft.net →.
See Adrienne Pine, Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 136.
Greg Lindsay, “Are Charter Cities the Cities of the Future?” Co.Exist, August 24, 2012 →.
Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights, 3.
“Honduran court: Private Cities ‘unconstitutional,’”Washington Examiner, October 3, 2012 →.
“Declaran Inconstitucional Ciudades Modelos En Honduras,” Diario La Prensa De Honduras, October 17, 2012→.
M. J. Shapiro, “Moral Geographies and the Ethics of Post-Sovereignty,” Public Culture vol. 6, no. 3 (1994): 480.
Dana Frank, “Honduras: Which Side Is the US On?” The Nation, May 22, 2012 →.
Mark Weisbrot, “Legacy of Honduran Coup Still Threatens Democracy in Latin America.”
Wendy Brown, Walled States, 67–8.
Translation assistance by Arden Decker