Michael Montgomery

Latest work

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship

02/03/2018 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Michael Montgomery

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 3 (Fall 2017) Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship by Virgil Henry Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch, and Laura E...

The Case for Privatizing Oceans and Rivers

10/10/2017 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Michael Montgomery

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 1 (Spring 2017) [ Water Capitalism: The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers by Walter E. Block and Peter L. Nelson] This...

Review of Smarter Growth: Market-Based Strategies for Land-Use Planning in the 21st Century, by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley

07/20/2005 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Michael Montgomery

Volume 6, No. 1 (Spring 2003) The push for “smart-growth” development policies typically is accompanied by half-baked assertions, arguments from intimidation, and strategic creativity in interpreting...

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