Author name: Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano

How state incentives transform entrepreneurial rebellion into administrative dependence. – Fiscal incentive syndrome. – Loss of producer identity. – Fragmentation of the entrepreneurial critical mass. Uruguay’s entrepreneurial ecosystem today lives in a profound schizophrenia of interests. On one side, a critical mass of globally competitive talent has emerged in software development, biotechnology, financial logistics and […]

Productive capital, economic decentralization and technology as drivers of structural transformation – Freedom Zones and Institutional Competition– From the Managerial State to the Platform State– How to Break State Inertia The Only Permanent Thing Is Change The Alternative Is Positive Change Demonopolization of Credit and Savings The Recovery of Capital If the State captured rent

How the abandonment of the gold standard enabled the expansion of the state and transformed Uruguay’s economic incentives. – Institutional discipline and the limits of monetary power – Inflation as an implicit tax – The shift toward a rent-seeking economy The reversal in the flow of capital The abandonment of the gold standard and the

How state capture of agro-export rents transformed a private capital accumulation economy into a political system sustained by consuming productive wealth. The Collapse of Uruguay’s Extractive State How state capture of agro-export rents transformed a private capital accumulation economy into a political system sustained by consuming productive wealth. Did the state build the nation, or

How early twentieth-century Uruguay allowed immigrants to prosper through economic freedom, property rights and individual initiative. – Uruguay’s liberal environment and immigrant opportunity – Individual merit as the engine of progress – State expansion and the rising cost of entrepreneurship The “Uruguayan Model” of Immigration: A Real Example of Hayek and Rand At the beginning

Hayek and Ayn Rand warned that permanent subsidies can transform democracy into a system of political privilege and economic dependence. – Subsidies and the expansion of political power– Hayek and the transformation of democracy into interest group politics– Ayn Rand and the concept of the “aristocracy of pull” SOCIAL JUSTICE: DISCRIMINATION WITH MALICE All subsidies

Public debt and political redistribution of capital are creating a structural transfer of resources that compromises the economic freedom and productive capacity of future generations. – The illusion of financing the present through debt – The economic decapitalization of future generations – The moral and political conflict of the welfare state The current structure of

From ZEDE territorial experiments to the digital Network State model, a liberal proposal challenging the state monopoly over land, Free Spaces from Statist Burdens These spaces place those who promote and vote for so-called “free trade” agreements in an uncomfortable position. Within their own countries, they maintain franchised zones free from heavy taxation where investment,