{"id":766,"date":"2011-12-20T16:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2016-03-17T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T21:23:57","slug":"the-end-of-the-mega-states-with-roman-skaskiw-and-andy-duncan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/766","title":{"rendered":"* The End of the Mega States? * with Roman Skaskiw and Andy Duncan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In our latest edition of Radio Free Market World Report, I talk to Roman Skaskiw about the global secession movement and particularly how this applies to the United States and the European Union. We examine why the world&#8217;s wealthiest countries, on a per capita basis, tend to be the smallest states, and why the major exception to this general rule, the United States, managed to avoid the trend.<\/p>\n<p>We discuss whether the United States itself should be saved from secession, why European countries tend to be both socialist and independent, and whether the world will move towards a global government or a global constellation of micro-states.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiofreemarket.com\/content\/end-mega-states-roman-skaskiw-and-andy-duncan\">More from Radio Free Market World Report<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/ui\/3523697345-audio-player.swf\" flashvars=\"audioUrl=http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/Writings\/WMR_Andy_Duncan_Global_Secession.mp3\" width=\"400\" height=\"27\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/Writings\/WMR_Andy_Duncan_Global_Secession.mp3\">Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: This was just posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mises.org\/20020\/the-end-of-the-mega-states\/\">mises.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In our latest edition of Radio Free Market World Report, I talk to Roman Skaskiw about the global secession movement and particularly how this applies to the United States and the European Union. We examine why the world&#8217;s wealthiest countries, on a per capita basis, tend to be the smallest states, and why the major &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/766\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}