This book ranks all world countries according to their economic efficiency. Some of the rankings challenge existing conceptions. The second purpose is normative, furnishing specific insights into the determinants of economic efficiency. The emphasis is on this second objective. The analysis...

This paper argues that sovereignty, as envisaged by Spinoza, is the logical foundation of constitutional economics. Constitutional constructs such as sovereignty weave an evolutionary dialectic between different organizational scales (the local, national, and global). This dialectic continues to...

There is no shortage of crises in the ecological (e.g. climate change), economic (e.g. the Global Financial Crisis), and socio-political spheres (e.g. the Arab Spring). While such crises are not new to the human saga, both the magnitude and frequency of these crises seem to be intensifying. The...

The San Franciscan Origins -- The World’s First Sharing City -- The Story of the Sharing Cities Alliance -- The transformation of Milan -- Sharing Towns - Building success with the sharing economy outside big cities -- Sharing cities in Australia -- The status of the sharing economy in Japan...