-
I believe Austrian economics is correct.
-
Banks have no limit on reserve requirements, so they can withhold 20% or 1% or 0%, but their ability to make loans is limited by the scarcity of their loan officers, who need to make sure that the loans are good and will be paid back (or at least serviced). This is why finance employment goes up in a credit expansion.
-
Solving bigness is the entire point of capitalism. People can pool their capital into corporations that are much bigger than any individual investor can be, for example.
-
I've seen a lot of "special taxation zones" already. They usually are even more corrupt than the rest of the city, because they are created by and for politicians.
-
The state owns them and will continue to under the free market, unless it collapses into bankruptcy, in which case the bankruptcy judge will decide.
-
Take for example monarchy. The autocrat has ultimate power by the ideological support of his aristocracy and clergy. Actually, it is the destruction of the aristocracy and clergy by the monarchy, through an appeal to egalitarianism, that produces an autocratic monarch. This is the reason behind the civil wars in Europe during the 17th century,
-
Then why not apply the reforms to the whole country?
-
Strictly speaking, land isn't produced by anyone -- unless it's reclaimed from the sea, as in the Netherlands. Strictly speaking then land cannot be owned. Economically, land is not part of the economy until someone finds it, and why would anyone go looking for it if he does not own the product of his search?
-
Why would the government of Honduras give up any power willingly?
-
You're approaching the problem from some abstract libertarian ethic instead of the economic nature of the problem - production of land. The question should be, how much land do you wish people to produce? If the answer is a whole continent, then you should homestead a whole continent.