{"id":61653,"date":"2022-01-27T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61653"},"modified":"2022-01-27T10:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:01:54","slug":"warre-and-peace-of-gifts-government-and-men-with-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61653","title":{"rendered":"Warre and peace: of gifts, government and men with guns"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Warre and peace: of gifts, government and men with guns<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
\n

This is the last in a somewhat interrupted series of posts about property rights in small farm futures and small farm pasts, which started\u00a0here<\/a>, looked at the idea of work and self-ownership\u00a0here<\/a>, considered private property\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and common property\u00a0here<\/a>. The missing piece in terms of standard definitions of property ownership is public or state ownership.<\/p>\n

So here I\u2019m going to address public ownership to complete this part of the blog cycle. But I\u2019m not going to say much about the forms of state ownership emanating from national, federal or local government familiar from everyday modern politics. For one thing, the issues involved in those have been endlessly rehashed in standard political positions concerning the pros and cons of (big) government, and I have little to add to all that. More importantly, I don\u2019t think this modern politics is going to survive in anything much like its familiar present forms as the various challenges of our present and future world begin to bite.<\/p>\n

That prompts questions about what state power and public ownership might look like in the future viewed from the centres out \u2013 from London or Washington DC, New York or New Delhi, Beijing, Mumbai, Edinburgh, Juba, Dublin, Belfast, Brussels, Los Angeles, Sacramento and so on. But it also prompts questions about what political power and public ownership might look like in the more rural peripheries of these power centres.<\/p>\n

My view, which could of course turn out to be wrong, is that the de facto power of the centres to organize life in these peripheries will wane, that more people will be living in many of these peripheries than they presently do, and that it\u2019s in these peripheries that the most important and interesting political and economic innovations of the world to come will occur…<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warre and peace: of gifts, government and men with guns This is the last in a somewhat interrupted series of posts about property rights in small farm futures and small farm pasts, which started\u00a0here, looked at the idea of work and self-ownership\u00a0here, considered private property\u00a0here\u00a0and common property\u00a0here. The missing piece in terms of standard definitions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15683,379,6552,32253,9738,1309],"class_list":["post-61653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chris-smaje","tag-government","tag-property-rights","tag-self-ownership","tag-small-farm-future","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61654,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61653\/revisions\/61654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}