Street Smart (book)

	Street Smart (book) ''Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads'' is a book about private highways. It covers many aspects of these roads, including the asserted need to protect personal freedom by reducing government control of the roadways; why government highways have failed; how roads can be built without exercising eminent domain authority; how vehicle and driver licensure by insurers can improve road safety; and so on. The writers of the book are Mary E. Peters, Gabriel Roth (economist), Gabriel Roth, John Semmens, Bruce L. Benson, David Levinson (author), David Levinson, Gopinath Menon, Herbert Mohring, Olegario Villoria, Edward Sullivan, Kenneth Button (economist), Kenneth Button, Daniel B. Klein, Daniel Klein, John Majewski, Fred Foldvary, Christina Malmberg Calvo, Sven Ivarsson, Gunter Zietlow, Jim McLay, Neil Roden, Ian Heggie, Robert W. Poole, Jr., Kenneth Orski, and Peter Samuel. See also Free market road References Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Private Highway A private highway is a highway owned and operated for profit by private industry. Private highways are common in Asia and Europe; in addition, a few have been built in the United States on an experimental basis. Typically, private highways are built by companies that charge tolls for a period while the debt is retired, after which the highway is turned over to government control. This allows governments to fulfill immediate transportation needs despite their own budget constraints, while still retaining public ownership of the roads in the long term. An obstacle to private highways is that government regulation can stifle price flexibility and introduce negotiation and paperwork requirements that increase operational expenses, while having to compete against free public roads. In addition, private highways lack some advantages that governments have, such as sovereign immunity against liability for accidents, the use of eminent domain power to acquire private property for roads an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Fred Foldvary Fred Emanuel Foldvary (May 11, 1946 – June 5, 2021) was an American economist. He was a lecturer in economics at San Jose State University, California, and a research fellow at the Independent Institute. He previously taught at Santa Clara University and other colleges. He was also a commentator and senior editor for the online journal ''The Progress Report'' and an associate editor of the online journal ''Econ Journal Watch.'' He served on the board of directors for the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. Work In his PhD dissertation (George Mason University, 1992) titled "Public Goods and Private Communities", Foldvary applied the theory of public goods and industrial organization to refute the concept of market failure, including case studies of several types of private communities. His research interests included ethics, governance, land economics, and public finance. His support of geolibertarianism (a libertarian ideology which embraces the Georgist philosophy of property) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Free Market Road Free may refer to: Concept * Freedom, the ability to act or change without constraint or restriction * Emancipate, attaining civil and political rights or equality * Free (''gratis''), free of charge * Gratis versus libre, the difference between the two common meanings of the adjective "free". Computing * Free (programming), a function that releases dynamically allocated memory for reuse * Free software, software usable and distributable with few restrictions and no payment , an emoji in the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block. Mathematics Free object Free abelian group Free algebra Free group Free module ** Free semigroup * Free variable People * Free (surname) * Free (rapper) (born 1968), or Free Marie, American rapper and media personality * Free, a pseudonym for the activist and writer Abbie Hoffman * Free (active 2003–), American musician in the band FreeSol Arts and media Film and television * ''Free'' (film), a 2001 American dramedy * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Peter Samuel Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, a Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), a Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather * ''Peter'' (album), a 1972 album by Peter Yarrow * ''Peter'', a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * "Peter", 2024 song by Taylor Swift from '' The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology'' Animals * Peter (Lord's cat), cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kenneth Orski Kenneth is a given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ... of Gaelic language, Gaelic origin. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and ''Cináed (other), Cináed''. The modern Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byname meaning "handsome", "comely". Etymology The second part of the name ''Cinaed'' is derived either from the Celtic language, Celtic ''aidhu'', meaning "fire", or else Common Brittonic, Brittonic ''jʉ:ð'' meaning "lord". People Fictional characters Kenneth Widmerpool, character in Anthony Powell's novel sequence ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' Kenneth Parcell from 30 Rock Places In the United States: Kenneth, Minnesota * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]