014 - Jan Mošovský: Tales of Liberty & Free City Vulnerabilities

<p>In part 4 of our series of conversations recorded in Prague I am talking with Jan Mošovský.</p> <p>Jan is the Director of Research at the <em>Liberalni Institute</em>, a Czech think tank championing the ideas of classical liberalism. He is also the European programs Manager at <em>Students for Liberty</em>, the largest libertarian students organisation in the world.</p> <p>I begin this conversation by asking Jan about something he wrote in an article…</p> <p><strong>"Every good story is ultimately libertarian in nature"</strong></p> <p>An interesting observation that’s leads us into an in-depth discussion on Libertarianism, liberalism and governance models.</p> <p>Jan has reservations about the viability of the Free Cities model and we discuss where he sees vulnerabilities and potential alternatives.</p> <p>Listening back to our conversation I feel that I should add a small addendum to my side of the dialogue for the point at which we were discussing the possibility of the State coming into a Free City and shutting it down. Since our conversation I have got further clarification from <em>Prospera</em> about the legal treaties in place to mitigate this. There are in fact two, the first being the [Central American Dominican Republic Free Trade agreement](//Central American Dominican Republic Free Trade agreement) in which the US is a signatory. Within this treaty is a key clause that guarantees that the property of foreign investors will not be expropriated by another country. This affects <em>Prospera</em> since it has several US investors. The second treaty is the Honduras Kuwait Treaty in which there are similar clauses that would impact investments made by Kuwaiti nationals.</p> <p>TWITTER:</p> <p>Jan Mošovský: <a href="https://twitter.com/JanMosovsky">https://twitter.com/JanMosovsky</a></p> <p>Timothy Allen: <a href="https://twitter.com/MrTimothyAllen">https://twitter.com/MrTimothyAllen</a></p> <p>Free Cities Foundation: <a href="https://twitter.com/freecitiesfound">https://twitter.com/freecitiesfound</a></p> <p>WEBSITES:</p> <p>Students for Liberty: <a href="https://studentsforliberty.org/">https://studentsforliberty.org/</a></p> <p>Free Cities Foundation: <a href="https://free-cities.org/">https://free-cities.org/</a></p>