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A Quick Case for Charter Cities
paul romer
Citation (APA): romer, p. (2017). A Quick Case for Charter Cities [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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A Quick Case for Charter Cities: Memo to the Gates Foundation
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Redistribution from rich to poor has not and cannot solve more than a tiny fraction of the problem. Even if you could perfectly equalize income in Third World nations with zero effect on production, the citizens of Third World countries would remain mired in poverty.
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x PUNTO DI PARTENZA
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sharing production
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increasing production
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there turns out to be one foolproof way for people from the Third World to drastically increase their production overnight: move to the First World.
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x UN MODO SEMPLICE X FAR ESPLODERE LA POVERTA
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Michael Clemens, Claudio Montenegro, and Lant Pritchett[
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Holding workers' traits fixed, moving a Haitian from Haiti to the United States increases his wage about ten times - a gain of 900%. The lesson: Third World workers are less productive than First World workers largely because they live in the dysfunctional countries.
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x ES HAIGI E LEZIONE
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figure out a close substitute
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"charter cities" proposal
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create pockets of high-quality First World governance in the heart of the Third World. How? By persuading Third World governments to create new self-governing cities exempt from most existing laws. These new cities could be governed by foreign law, and administered by foreign governments - or even a for-profit corporation.
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x L IDEA
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The success of Hong Kong is a key inspiration. At the dawn of British rule, the land area that is now Hong Kong was sparsely inhabited. But it had one blessing denied to the rest of China: British rules
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x LA FORTUNA DI HONG KONG
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By the time Hong Kong reverted to mainland rule, it was not only a First World country, but a model for the rest of China to emulate.
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x PROSPERITÀ E MODELLO
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Intense populist opposition aside, it is hard to graft one country's institutions on to another's - especially when entrenched interests fight you every step of the way.
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x LA TABULA RASA UNICA VIA
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This is true in the business world as well. Competitors often try and fail to adopt leading firms' "best practices."
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x VEDI LE AZIENDE
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It is easier to open a new WalMart than to make the Kmart chain better. Advocates of charter cities argue that is also easier to bring in "outside management" to make a new city that works than to reform existing countries that don't.
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x ES
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If the native entrepreneurs who built Hong Kong had been trapped in mainland China, most would have wasted their lives in dead-end jobs on Maoist communes or joined the Communist elite. Hong Kong gave them opportunities to use talents that otherwise would have gone to waste.
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x IMPRENDITORI CINESI. BENEFICI DIRETTI
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Hong Kong shined brightly enough to convince even dogmatic Chinese Communist elites that private property, foreign investment, and economic integration with the world economy were the way to go.
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x BENEFICI INDIRETTI
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laboratories
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"copied and pasted"
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Another upside of charter cities is that there is virtually no downside. A charter city begins on empty land. It can only grow by voluntary migration of workers and investors. If no one chooses to relocate, they're no worse off
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x NESSUN EQ TURBATO
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the paths the Gates Foundation currently intends to pursue sound worse than doing nothing. "Build capacity of organizations working on-the-ground with the urban poor" and "Integrate the voice of the poor into the planning process" sound compassionate. But they could easily further retard the only poverty-reduction process that really works: economic growth.
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x MOLTI AIUTI FANNO MALE OLTRE A NN FAR BENE
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economic illiteracy is especially pronounced among the least educated. They are especially likely to misperceive the economy as a zero-sum game, to fear economic interaction with foreigners, and to naively focus on employment rather than production.
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Can "Charter Cities" Change the World? A Q& A With Paul Romer
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In the developing world, most people don’t yet live in big well-run cities. Given the chance to move to one, hundreds of millions of people would go there to get a job, get an education for their children, and live in a place that is clean, safe, and healthy. Other people will make a profit by hiring them or supplying them with infrastructure and other services.
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x AFFARI X TUTTI. NESSUNA UMILIANTE ELEMOSITÀ LA DIGNITÀ RISPETTATA SUL SERIO
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It doesn’t take any charity to build well-run cities.
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In many cities in poor countries, health is bad because governments don’t enforce basic rules about sanitation. The crime rate is appallingly high because the government doesn’t enforce rules that prohibit theft and violence. Traffic fatalities and congestion are both high because they don’t have good traffic rules or if they do, they don’t enforce them. The fact that people still flock to cities with such bad rules tells us something about how big the other benefits from living in a city must be.
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x LE COITTÀ DI OGGI NEL TERZO MONDO. CMQ IL MEGLIO
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Economists tend to assume that societies will naturally adopt good rules.
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x ECONOMISTI: TEORA E PRATICA
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The evidence suggests to the contrary that many societies are stuck with bad rules. Moving from bad rules to better ones may be much harder than most economists have allowed. The construct of a charter city is a suggestion about how we can change the dynamics of rules.
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x COME CAMBIARE
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Who might grant the charter
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If a national government has sufficient credibility, it could start a charter city within its own territory and administer it from the national capital.
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x IPOTESI DI CHARTER
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In poorer countries that don’t have the same kind of credibility with international investors, a more interesting but controversial possibility is that two or more countries might sign a treaty specifying the charter for a new city and allocate between them responsibilities for administering different parts of the treaty.
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Right now, the United States and Cuba have a treaty that gives the United States administrative control in perpetuity over a piece of sovereign Cuban territory, Guantanamo Bay. I’ve suggested that Canada and Cuba sign a new treaty in which Canada would take over administration of this area, bring Canadian rule of law there, and let a city grow up that could bring to Cuba some of the advantages that Hong Kong brought to China.
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x ES DI CUBA
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Why will governments, particularly the entrenched, corrupt governments found in many countries, be willing to cede control of these zones?
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x DUBBIO. NA I CATTIVI NN LO CONSENTIRANNO!
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Narratives about good guys and bad guys are always entertaining, but there is a deeper reason why people get stuck under bad rules.
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x BUONI VS CATTOVI
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Systems of rules are “sticky”; they are difficult for any leader or group to change. With this in mind, suppose you were the president of Cuba. Suppose you wanted to do for Cuba what Deng Xiaoping did for China: engineer the transition from communism to rapid market-led growth. To do this, you might want to create a special zone where some of your citizens could opt-in to the market system without forcing others to make this change.
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x LA PROPOSTA È UN MODO X CAMBIARE E UN GOVERNANTE CHE VUOLE CAMBIARE L ADOTTERÀ
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Another good example is Hong Kong. The British clearly did not want to live up to the terms of the treaty they signed, which returned control of important parts of Hong Kong to China after 99 years. China didn’t want to wait that long to get Hong Kong back. But in the end, for 99 years, they stuck to the terms of the treaty they signed.
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x I FATTI SI CONSOLIDANO. VEDI HONG KONG
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Think about the truly important changes in political systems. Back in the middle ages, suppose that someone described a legal system that enforced rules and contracts that everyone had to obey, even the country’s leaders. What would informed opinion of the day have been? “Great idea, but it will never happen.” No question it was hard to pull off, but it did happen. People always think that the unfamiliar is impossible. Many times, all that holds us back is a failure of imagination.
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x L ECONOMISTA DEVE DIRE LE COSE COME STANNO NN QUELL CHE LA POLITICA VUOL SENTIRSI DIRE. IMMAGINAZIONE AL POTERE
