Reddit reviews The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors

> How was that?

Very good.

Here's is where the flaw is going to be in what you wrote though:

> As to “who would build the roads” the answer is easy, it’s the same people that would today. The workers would build the roads.

This literally means nothing. I don't mean that as a hyperbolic statement I mean that as a literal statement.

While its good to have some limited examples of small, poor areas, getting by with something like Socialism what you do not have is a theory of production that actually shows how this road gets built.

Sticking to the road example; who is paying to get the materials for the road? Who is providing the food and so on for the workers? How are materials going to be allocated in the future for road up keep? What mechanism is being used to decide that an asphalt road is better than a gravel one?

Compare whatever you have read or thought on the subject to some like this book on private roads.

Without appealing to profit & loss (even if you call it something else) or to an imagined utopia where people just do things and resources allocate themselves perfectly, how does a road get built?

I live in oklahoma. The best roads in the state, the only roads that aren't complete shit, are the turnpikes. Now, before you go all "see government makes great roads!" you should know that the oklahoma turnpike authority owns those roads, maintains those roads, and collects usage fees (voluntarily) for the operation of the turnpike authority. They receive no tax dollars at all, never have, and only barely have any oversight. They built the roads with no tax dollars. They pretty much act on their own like a private business. They still fuck up in the normal ways government does- they waste money building fancy buildings at specific on/off ramps and they have a total monopoly on turnpikes in Oklahoma, but they get a lot of stuff right.

The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors

Privatize the fucking roads already. This is a no-brainer. If you don't think it's possible read this:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Privatization-Roads-Highways-Economic/dp/147833844X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398442224&sr=8-1&keywords=the+privatization+of+roads+and+highways

or this:

http://www.independent.org/publications/books/summary.asp?id=64