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Although the United States and other affluent nations havemore than an adequate food supply, other nations daily facethe specter of starvation. The world now has a critical population/food dilemma of potentially major proportions. Production fromthe sea and the land is not keeping pace with a world populationthat is doubling every thirty-five years. Unless this age-oldMalthusian problem is solved, millions face starvation and ultimatelydeath.The situation has stimulated substantial international interestin the sea as a source of food and raw materials. The potentialof the sea-not as a panacea, but as an important source of proteinto augment the world's food supplies and thereby as a meansof mitigating the crises we face-is a continuing theme throughoutthis book. At present, fish provide approximately 9 percentof the world's protein. Fish are sought not only for food butalso for recreation and pleasure. What forces determine the presentsupply and demand for fishery products? More important,what steps are needed to utilize the full potential of the sea asa source of food and recreation? This book explores these forcesand thus provides an insight into food potential from the sea.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: From Dinosaurs to Chickens; Part I. Facts: 1.1. The Most Valuable Thing in the World?; 1.2. Revolution, Inside-Out, Bottom-Up, World-Wide; 1.3. Special Jurisdictions in the United States; 1.4. Case Study 1: Fordlandia; 1.5. Case Study 2: Honduran REDs and ZEDEs; 1.6. Case Study 3: Seasteads; Part II. Theory: 2.1. The Center of the Law; 2.2. Why Consent to Consent?; 2.3. Up the Ladder of Consent; 2.4. Forget It Is a Constitution; Part III. Practice: 3.1. Best Practices in Governing Services; 3.2. Abolish Governmental Immunity; 3.3. Citizen Courts; 3.4. From Orphaned Cities to Shared Communities; 3.5. Double Democracy; 3.6. United States Special Economic Zones (USSEZs); 3.7. Ulex: An Open Source Legal Operating System; 3.8. Stories of the Sort Ordinarily Recounted Over Drinks; Conclusion: From Smart Governments, Gold Swans; Appendix 1: Worldwide Census of SEZs and Similar Zones; Appendix 2: Economics of Monopolies in Governing Services; Appendix 3: Ulex Open Source Legal Operating System Version 1.0 (2016)

Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions - common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These trends suggest that new networks of special jurisdictions will soon surpass nation states in the same way that networked computers replaced mainframes. In this groundbreaking work, Tom W. Bell describes the quiet revolution transforming governments from the bottom up, inside-out, worldwide, and how it will fulfill its potential to bring more freedom, peace, and prosperity to people everywhere