Click here for the video link on YouTube My 1st interview with Joyce Free Cities Conference, day 1 (Joyce’s speech starts at 6:53:30) Free Cities Conference, day 2 Joyce’s role as Governance Architect Joyce’s Substack And her book, “Pioneering Prosperity” The Live and Let Live website My apologies; I had genuine tech issues on this interview which made my part of the audio quite degraded. My thanks to Joyce for being both helpful and extraordinarily patient. Joyce Brand is a Governance Architect, author of Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities, and creator of the Consent Architecture Framework, a methodology for evaluating the structural viability of emerging jurisdictions. Her work focuses on a question that has become increasingly important as new cities, special jurisdictions, and startup societies emerge around the world: what makes a new jurisdiction structurally viable—and capable of surviving political pressure? Drawing on her experience living in Ciudad Morazán, Honduras, and her work with founders and investors developing new jurisdictions, Joyce studies governance as something that can be designed, tested, and improved rather than simply inherited. She writes and speaks internationally about free cities, voluntary governance, and the institutional structures that allow emerging jurisdictions to survive political pressure and endure over time. She writes about these ideas at Free Cities Substack and is currently writing The Sovereign Network, a book about the emerging architecture of governance beyond the traditional nation-state. ... My full, free 23-part Myth of Authority Masterclass Since some may be new to libertarian perspectives, here is a short list of links you may find helpful. I’ve classified them based on the different ways people ponder issues: Want to know how important things would get done without government? * Reading material: “The Machinery of Freedom” by David Friedman; for private law specifically (rather than government law) try “Legal Foundations of a Free Society” by Stephan Kinsella * Video: “The Case for Privatization, of Everything”, “Law without Government: Principles”, “Law without Government: Conflict Resolution”, “Law without Government: The Bargaining Mechanism” Want a comprehensive overview? * Reading material: “The Voluntaryist Handbook” by Keith Knight “The Consent Principle” by Shepard the Voluntaryist * Video: “Anarchy 101”, “The Philosophy of Liberty” Want to get down to the root of it, without sugar coating? * Reading material: “Anatomy of the State” by Murray Rothbard, “The Most Dangerous Superstition” by Larken Rose * Video: “The Fundamentals”, “The Whole Problem”, “The State is Too Dangerous to Tolerate”, “The Tiny Dot” Want to focus on economics? * Reading material: “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read, “Economics in One Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt * Video: “The Attractiveness of Austrian Economics” Want to focus on the absurdity of politics? * Reading material: “The Problem of Political Authority” by Michael Huemer * Video: “Election Day”, “I’m Allowed to Rob You”, “If You Were King”, “The Jones Plantation” Thanks for checking out The White Pillbox by Mark Maresca. Subscribe to receive new posts for free! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit markmaresca.substack.com
