Mark Frazier

Areas of expertise * Special Economic Zones and Entrepreneurial Communities * Digital Philanthropy * EcoVillages and Tiny House Communities * Universal Membership Owners Associations * On-Demand Learning Education * B.A., Harvard University (1974) * Visiting Fellow, Lehrman Institute (1979) I'm president of Openworld, a nonprofit research and volunteer network specializing in innovative ways to remove barriers to entrepreneurship, and chairman of the advisory board of the Startup Societies Foundation. I've worked in 50+ countries over the past four decades on special economic zones and market-based learning initiatives in projects funded by private philanthropists, the World Bank, USAID, and local and global developers. With Joseph McKinney, I have coauthored an ebook on Founding Startup Societies, mapping new ways to bootstrap startup ecovillages and tiny house communities. I am active in “Game B” initiatives to incubate contract-based communities, with a focus on land trusts and Endowment Zones that vest residents as beneficiaries of rising land values. Earlier in his career, I was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's research and consulting practice on non-governmental approaches to service delivery. Social networks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-frazier-0694141/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.frazier1/. Publications * Book co-author: Founding Startup Societies (2019) https://is.gd/startupsocieties * Peer reviewed journal article: “Emergence of a New Hanseatic League,” Chapman Law Review, 2019 * Book contributor: Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere (Valnora Leister, ed.), Lexington Press, 2018 * Author of “Seeding Grass Roots Recovery,” ACIR, 1989 https://is.gd/seedingrecovery * Other publications at https://markfrazier.academia.edu