reason.com - 5/7/2009
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As Ethiopia invades to break the power of the Union of Islamic Courts over Mogadishu and much of Southern Somalia, Benjamin Powell over at the Independent Institute argues that Somalia has been doing better without an effective central government of late than it was with one. The heart of it: In ...
mises.org - 5/7/2009
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mises.org —
Somalia is in the news again. Rival gangs
are shooting each other, and why? The reason is
always the same: the prospect that the weak-to-invisible transitional government in Mogadishu will become a real government with actual power. The media ...
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Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It - Yumi Kim - Mises ...
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Government Empowers And Protects Us
Seeing the Forest —
... , Somalia has done very well for itself in the 15 years since its government was eliminated. The future of peace and prosperity there depends in part on keeping one from forming. And see for yourself at the libertarian Reason Magazine, "the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets," where they write about The Anarchy Advantage in Somalia . Click through to ...
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... And see for yourself at the libertarian Reason Magazine, "the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets," where they write about The Anarchy Advantage in Somalia. ...
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