Patri Friedman
“We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.”
Biography
Patri Friedman (born July 29, 1976, in Blacksburg, Virginia) is an American libertarian activist, anarcho-capitalist, and theorist of political economy. He is best known for pioneering the concept of seasteading creating autonomous floating communities to allow experimentation with new social and legal systems.
Work
- Founder of The Seasteading Institute
- Founder of Pronomos Capital (venture capital for startup cities)
- Former Executive Director of The Seasteading Institute
- Co-founder of Future Cities Development Corporation (Honduras charter cities project)
- Creator of Ephemerisle (floating festival as a seasteading prototype)
- Pioneer in charter cities and startup societies
- Advocate and writer on experimental governance
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