Yo ho ho and a share of the profits: Part 4, “No breaking up their way of...
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By: David A. Smith We’re multicultural because we want to sell tickets worldwide Piracy, as we’ve now established in the first...
View ArticleYo ho ho and a share of the profits: Part 5, “Not honester than their neighbors”
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.] By: David A. Smith Whereas Marxist historian Marcus Rediker, interviewed by Rebecca Onion for a feature in the Boston...
View ArticleYo ho ho and a share of the profits: Part 6, “Shall have our gracious pardon”
[Continued from Friday’s Part 5 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.] By: David A. Smith Having made it all the way to the end of my self-indulgent multi-part speculation on piracy as a...
View ArticleMonth in Review, November 2014: Part 1, More people, more property
By: David A. Smith As long as the world keeps making more people, the world needs more houses, and for there to be more houses, they must be developed, permitted, and physically located somewhere, and...
View ArticleMonth in review, November 2014: Part 2, More Property, More Piracy?
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Pirates don’t like being the captive instead of the captor Yesterday’s Part 1 covering half of November’s posts explored how growth of the...
View ArticleThe tenant of Venice: Part 1, I crave the law
By: David A. Smith Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The...
View ArticleThe tenant of Venice: Part 2, You take my house
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. – The...
View ArticleA crack in the Great Wall: Part 2, Ten million migrants
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Yesterday’s Part 1 on Chongqing’s dramatic – indeed, radical – experiment in urbanization, affordable housing, and economic capitalism,...
View ArticleA crack in the Great Wall: Part 3, Offered urban hukou
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith As we saw yesterday, Bo Xilai’s assumption of control over Chongqing municipality was certainly eventful: in barely...
View ArticleA crack in the Great Wall: Part 4, One of the party’s obsessions
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By: David A. Smith In yesterday’s part 3, we established that while Bo Xilai’s red star was still rising in Chongqing, he...
View ArticleA crack in the Great Wall: Part 5, A free market for rural property
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.] By: David A. Smith By now in this post it should be apparent, even working with the limited information presented...
View ArticleA crack in the Great Wall: Part 6, Nervous of big land reform
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 5 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.] By: David A. Smith As we’ve seen in previous parts of this post, if Chongqing’s ongoing experiment in urban...
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