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Libertarian Historian and Commentator
About Harry Urban
In 2013, Harry Urban published 'The Unfunded Revolution,' a meticulously sourced critique of how libertarian think tanks quietly reshaped federal regulatory agencies, not through legislation, but by supplying staff, drafting model rules, and redefining 'cost-benefit analysis' to exclude non-market values like ecological resilience or intergenerational equity. His work exposed the quiet migration of Hayekian epistemology into EPA rulemaking dockets and FCC spectrum auctions, revealing how ideological frameworks become embedded in technical language. Unlike most historians of ideology, Urban refuses archival abstraction: he cross-references FOIA logs with internal memos, traces funding flows from donor-advised funds to junior policy analysts, and interviews retired civil servants who implemented policies they didn’t believe in, because the alternatives lacked spreadsheet-ready metrics. His lens is forensic, not celebratory or dismissive; he treats libertarianism as a living institutional technology, not a set of beliefs. That approach has made him indispensable to scholars studying the administrative state’s quiet evolution, and deeply uncomfortable for partisans on both left and right.
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- “How did the Cato Institute’s 1998 telecom deregulation memo actually change FCC enforcement patterns?”
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