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XI.2: The Growth of Corporations

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Corporations do not get bigger because they get more complicated. Rather, corporations get more complicated because they get bigger. In my earlier post, I presented Jane Jacobs’ argument that by their nature governments get bigger and their growth causes them to get more complicated. But Jacobs also applied the same principle to private organizations, like … Read more

XI.1: Jane Jacobs and the Growth of Government

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Conventional wisdom says the nature of government makes it grow more and more complicated, and that makes it grow bigger. But is that true? Can we think outside that box? Jane Jacobs – housewife, city hall rabble-rouser, and natural-born genius – took this problem of the growth of government and turned it inside-out: The English … Read more

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