''Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads'' is a book about
private highway
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s. 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
Eminent domain, also known as land acquisition, compulsory purchase, resumption, resumption/compulsory acquisition, or expropriation, is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use. It does not include the power to take and t ...
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,
John Semmens,
Bruce L. Benson
Bruce L. Benson (born March 18, 1949) is an American academic economist who is recognized as an authority on law and economics and a major exponent of anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-capitalist Law#Legal theory, legal theory. He is Chairman, chair o ...
,
David Levinson,
Gopinath Menon,
Herbert Mohring,
Olegario Villoria, Edward Sullivan,
Kenneth Button Kenneth Button may refer to:
* Kenneth Button (economist) (born 1948), British transport economist
* Kenneth Button (physicist) (1922–2010), American solid state physicist
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,
Daniel Klein,
John Majewski,
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 Univ ...
,
Christina Malmberg Calvo,
Sven Ivarsson,
Gunter Zietlow,
Jim McLay
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,
Neil Roden,
Ian Heggie,
Robert W. Poole, Jr.,
Kenneth Orski
Kenneth is a given name
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, and
Peter Samuel
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People
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.
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See also
*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 betw ...
References
*Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads. Future Survey. 2007;29(3):12. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=25787311&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site
*Leef GC. Road to the Future. Regulation. 2006;29(4):58-60. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=23788794&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site
*https://www.cato.org/regulation/winter-2006/book-review-street-smart-competition-entrepreneurship-future-roads
*Connaughton ST. Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads. Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics & Policy. 2006;73(4):521-525. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=23620761&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site
*Carnis L. The Privatization of Roads and Highways, Human and Economic Factors/Street Smart, Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. 2011;14(1):130-140. Accessed June 25, 2025. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=67301535&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site
External links
*http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2007/sotu/sotu11.htm
*http://www.allbusiness.com/miscellaneous-retail/retail-stores-not-elsewhere/4014034-1.html
American non-fiction books
Road infrastructure
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