MisesWiki:Call to Action/Voluntary Cooperation
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Please create and expand articles about voluntary (free market) ways of human cooperation, especially in domains where such a cooperation is disputed.
The ultimate goal: Create a solid introduction for anyone who is interested in the topic. Both sides of the discussion should be covered in good detail. There is a portal of sorts here: Privately supplied public goods.
Things to do:
- How about creating pages for the public variations for each concept?
- How to differentiate between private law and 'purely' private, contractual law?
- Some pages seem to do better with a title in plural (Public goods), esp. groupings of examples, as compared to the classic definitorial pages which should be in singular. Will need some consideration.
- Possible expansion: include also the pages mentioned on the Talk page.
- Polish Private defense agency (was taken over from WP)
- Check out this series of Freeman articles about education.
- Anything else?
Done:
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create Public Goods and Market Failures: A Critical Examination, Free rider problem, Market failure - (Hopefully) exhausted resources:
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Make at least stubs for all major topics -
Check the Wikipedia pages for useful material- some have tons of useful content (although a lot is unreferenced, making it unusable); some have little material of use. Overall, too much to go through at the moment. -
Check the sources on the Talk page! -
What would be a suitable category to group the topics into?
Voluntary Cooperation? Alternatives to public goods? Privately supplied public goods?Private alternatives to public goods!
Pages
- Security/Safety:
- Private laws
- Private dispute resolution (aka Arbitration)
- Private defense, also Private defense agency
- Private police (aka Private law enforcement aka Private security)
- Private prison (aka Private punishment)
- Private prosecution (aka Prosecution association)
- Private emergency services / catastrophe aid (aka Private firefighting)
- Private healthcare (aka Private hospitals) / Healthcare
- Infrastructure:
- Private roads and a catchall page Private infrastructure, since if also features things like canals and railroads
- Private utilities, sanitation, ...
- Private schools
- Private parks? (see Central Park Conservancy, [1])
- Private post? (some history here, p. 428+)
- Welfare & other:
- Friendly societies / Private insurance?
- Private unemployment programs
- Agriculture (esp. without subsidies)
- Charity
- Private libraries
- Consumer protection? -> [2]
- Contractual communities (aka Voluntary society - which name is better?) / Zoning laws
- Private environmental protection? -> see [3] and especially [4]; [5]
- Private coinage? (way too many resources around; this one reminded me of it)
- Public goods -> Public Goods and Market Failures: A Critical Examination, Free rider problem, Market failure
- ...anything else?