How To Start a New Country
by Balaji Srinivasan
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Naval Ravikant and Marc Andreessen
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See customer reviews on Amazon →An energetic, argumentative book that mixes startup playbook tactics with political speculation about building ‘network states’ from online communities. Its useful part is practical-sounding maneuvers and an expansive frame for imagining how digital-first communities might scale into physical governance. Its main limitation is speculative leaps and repeated manifesto-style rhetoric that leave legal, logistical, and moral gaps; readers seeking sober, evidence-heavy policy analysis or granular legal templates will find it thin. Lacks hands-on exercises or step-by-step legal blueprints.
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Technology, has enabled us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we use it to start new cities, or even new countries This book explains how to build the successor to the nation state, a concept we call the network state.This book introduces the concept of the network state: a country you can start from your computer,...
Difficulty:hard
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
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