Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
Let’s … say we want to create a new city: Murphopolis. Murphopolis will be somewhere in the vast Arizona desert. Some 46,000 people journey to the middle of that desert and, among the spiders, scorpions, and blazing heat, start building a town. In 2025, the benefits of a sewer system are well-known. In the construction of this city, eminent domain is not necessary: property contracts can be written to incorporate the necessary easements and connections. … Moving to the more general problem of government, many advocates for government actions simply point to the action being used in the past to solve some problem and then conclude that the same action is appropriate. But the time and conditions of the current problem are not the same as in the past.” (07/31/25)
https://www.econlib.org/eminent-domain-and-the-problem-of-government