Real-time analysis of charter cities and related topics
February 18, 2020
February 12, 2020
January 28, 2020
January 27, 2020
We're hiring an Operations Manager. If interested, email a resume and cover letter to mark@cci.city
November 13, 2019
Executive Director Mark Lutter parses the distinction between large real estate projects and viable cities.
September 23, 2019
Sustained economic growth is the world’s best poverty reduction tool. In this paper, Research Associate Jeffrey Mason argues that charter cities are a highly cost-effective way to ignite long-run growth.
December 20, 2019
December 17, 2019
We're proud to release our 2019 Annual Report.
December 9, 2019
December 2, 2019
Charter cities offer residents in emerging economies something they rarely get: a choice of where and under which institutions to live.
November 18, 2019
November 12, 2019
A call for academic papers ahead of the inaugural Charter Cities Conference on March 17-18, 2020.
October 24, 2019
September 20, 2019
Paul Romer went to Burning Man.
September 5, 2019
We are happy to announced the 1st and 2nd prize winners of our Technology Zone White Paper Contest: Ross Marchand and Ryan Hagemann.
July 31, 2019
As the Center has grown and developed, so has the substance of our internal conversations.
July 1, 2019
On the connection between charter cities and effective altruism.
June 3, 2019
On May 2nd, Executive Director Mark Lutter and Communications Lead Tamara Winter spoke at the Lincoln Network’s Reboot American Innovation Conference.
May 13, 2019
The Charter Cities Institute is pleased to announce our Charter Cities Business Plan Contest. First-place prize is $25,000 and second place receives $10,000.
May 7, 2019
Noah Smith recently asked me on Twitter to compare charter cities to Millennium Villages.
April 23, 2019
I recently tweeted that the Charter Cities Institute is “Gonna make charter cities replicable. Charter cities in a box.” I’d like to unpack what I mean by that.
April 4, 2019
Some answers to frequently asked questions about charter cities.
March 26, 2019
A charter city is a city given a special jurisdiction to create a new governance system.
March 20, 2019
We’re pleased to share our new brochure, “Building the Future of Governance.”
March 6, 2019
Inspired by these questions and others we’ve received, we’ll also be posting an FAQ on the website in the coming days.
February 4, 2019
We have a new working paper by Jorge Colindres and myself (Mark Lutter) on how charter cities can make Honduras great.
January 17, 2019
The Charter Cities Institute is pleased to announce our Technology Zones White Paper Competition: “Towards a New Regulatory Framework”.
January 15, 2019
This week’s guest on the Charter Cities Podcast is Santiago Gangotena.
December 10, 2018
I’m interested in teaching a charter cities course next year so I wrote up this draft syllabus.
October 30, 2018
These questions are focused around charter cities and innovative governance.
October 9, 2018
A review of Artemis by Andy Weir
October 8, 2018
Paul Romer, along with William Nordhaus, just won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on endogenous growth theory.
A guest post by Mischa Spiegelmock.
October 2, 2018
Video lecture on charter cities locations.
October 1, 2018
A presentation overview of Ulex.
September 12, 2018
A summary of events in the charter cities space in September.
August 13, 2018
Devon Zuegel is a writer and software engineer living in San Francisco.
August 1, 2018
The nomination of Brett Kavanuagh to the Supreme Court has ignited an interesting discussion about the rise of the conservative legal movement.
July 23, 2018
An interview with Joe Quirk, President of the Seasteading Institute.
July 17, 2018
A conversation with Lotta Moberg.
July 9, 2018
A conversation with Michael Castle Miller, the Founder and CEO of Politas Consulting.
July 2, 2018
Mwiya Musokotwane is building a new city in Zambia, and raising capital to expand the model throughout Africa.
June 21, 2018
One of the most important considerations in building a charter city is location.
June 13, 2018
Paul Collier is a professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.
June 4, 2018
The sixth guest for the Charter Cities Podcast is Patrik Schumacher. Patrik is the Principal at Zaha Hadid Architects.
May 31, 2018
Wade Shepard, a journalist who writes on new cities has an in Forbes which describes some of the challenges in categorizing new city projects.
May 15, 2018
Our fifth guest for the Charter Cities Podcast is Glen Weyl.
May 7, 2018
Last week I attended the World Free Zone Organization’s annual conference in Dubai.
April 30, 2018
In this podcast we have a wide ranging discussion about private governance, liberalism, the origin of the state, and the future of governance.
April 22, 2018
The development community is shifting their focus to fragile states. The World Bank doubled their fund for fragile states.
April 19, 2018
An interview with Patri Friedman.
April 9, 2018
Hambantota is a port in Southern Sri Lanka of which control was ceded to China in a 99 year lease.
April 7, 2018
The New York Times has a very interesting article on ISIS and how they created a bureaucracy to administer their territory and collect taxes.
March 22, 2018
An interview with Preston Mendenhall, the Head of Corporate Affairs for Rendeavour.
April 4, 2018
Kilian Kleinschmidt is a humanitarian and entrepreneur.
April 11, 2018
The Case of the Honduran ZEDE Regime
March 24, 2018
Mark interviews Tyler Cowen, a Professor of Economics at George Mason University.
