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The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
by Mancur Olson
Description: The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities examines how the size and flexibility of social groups influence economic development and the challenges of stagflation and institutional rigidity
ISBN: 0300030797
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crassus · 2013-11-18 · Original thread
Tianming. If some other system governs better than democracy, then we should use it.

As Moldbug points out, the current US Govcorp is structured as an employee collective[1][2], which no competitive corporation chooses as a system of organization in the free market. As Mancur Olson points out, bureaucracies tend to get more inefficient over time[3].

I know we've all been raised to believe that democracy is love and rainbows, but maybe it's time to rethink that.

[1] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-whe...

[2] http://foseti.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/on-government-employm...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Decline-Nations-Stagflation/d...