Communications Theory
Acting Human; Communication Costs - Using Austrian economics to rethink communication theory as a form of praxeology.
Coming soon: “Innis’ Smithian Blind Spot in his Staple Thesis”
“Notes on Pumping up the Volume in Communication Studies,”
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 17, 1992
Voluntary Governance and Related Themes
“Paul Piccone as Libertarian? A Canadian Proof and Rothbardian Critique,”
The Independent Review, 16(4), March, 2012
“Whither Regulation?”
Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, Dec. 14, 2011
“Rothbard’s Anti-libertarian Gold Standard?”
Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, Oct. 17, 2011
“Selfishness, Scarcity and Action”
Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, Oct 4, 2011
“Voluntary Governance: A Roadmap”
A treatise on the history, foundations and strategy of stateless society
“Voluntary Governance,”
Libertarian Standard, Nov. 2010.
“Whither the Municipality? Defining the Municipal in Confederal Municipalism,” Anarchist Studies, 2(1), Spring 1994.
“Individuals, Communities and Federalism,”
Telos, 93, Fall 1992
“Beyond the Crises: Proposal for a New Confederation,”
in Political Arrangements: Power and the City, (ed.) H. Lustiger-Thaler (Montreal: Black Rose, 1992).
“Toronto’s Neighbourhood Association Movement, In Light of the Artificial Negativity Thesis,”
in Culture and Social Change, (eds.) C. Leys and M. Mendell (Montreal: Black Rose, 1992.)
“Hannah Arendt’s Vision of the European Council Phenomenon,” Dialectical Anthropology, 16(1), 1991
Libertarian History of Canada
“Why was there no Canadian ‘Civil War’?”
Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, Oct. 25, 2011
“George Woodcock’s Failed Effort, at 30″
Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, June 24, 2011
Organizational Governance
(Most of the publications in this section were written while I was a researcher at the Institute of Public Governance of Canada. IPAC is dedicated to improvement of state “service.” These publications were also written before I’d become familiar with voluntary governance theory. Consequently, they will not reflect those values, however, they are revealing in providing a window into both the perception of a growing crisis of state governance in the mainstream public administration literature and the tendency in that literature toward ever more decentred and competitive governance solutions. My article in the Libertarian Standard, cited above, would be interesting to consult in regards to such development.)
“Whither Regulation?”
Mises Institute of Canada, Dec. 14, 2011
“The Road to NGO: The Transformation of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 1985-1995,”
in Professionalism and Public Service: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan, (eds.) David Siegel and Ken Rasmussen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).
Dreaming of the Regulatory Village; Speaking of the Regulatory State
(Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada – New Directions Series #18, 2006)
Reinventing Service: Processes and Prospects for Municipal Alternative Service Delivery
(Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada and the Governance Network – New Directions Series #14, 2004)
Making Connections: Municipal Governance Priorities Today
(Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada – New Directions Series #13, 2004)
Thinking Regulation: A Roadmap to the Recent Periodical Literature, commissioned by the Privy Council Office, Federal Government of Canada, 2003.
