[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-juan-hanke-estevez":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Juan D. Hanke-Estevez is an ambassador for the Free Cities Foundation and a German-language writer and translator on free private cities. He makes the case for special economic zones as institutional laboratories, including a proposal for an experimental zone in Switzerland’s Jura region, and has translated work on competitive governance between German, English and Spanish.","He worked for the Free Cities Foundation as an operations assistant in its early years and has stayed with the movement since as an ambassador and a writer, and he sits on the board of the Hayek Club in Frankfurt.","His paper in the Journal of Special Jurisdictions, the peer-reviewed journal for research on zones and new jurisdictions, examines the future of citizenship and what democracy and participation can mean inside a Honduran ZEDE. It takes on the objection critics raise most often: a jurisdiction governed by contract still has residents, and residents want a say, so the design question is which decisions belong to the operator, which belong to the people who live there, and how the second group can enforce anything against the first.","He writes in German at Der Freydenker on private cities and democracy, and on the older question of how liberalism, the social market economy and Catholic social teaching relate to one another. The Jura proposal applies the same reasoning in a European setting, where a special zone would give a region room to try solutions of its own instead of waiting for a national reform that may never come. He holds a master’s degree in political theory, is an alumnus of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and a former Frédéric Bastiat Fellow at the Mercatus Center.",1788062495358]