What Is the Appropriate Scale of the State?

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The question of scaling, ho random this washs out under at a larscale. And that many of the states to day around the world are too big. So that's an interesting observation. Is it a political message? Is it a rallying cry? Is it just a description and nation of how the world works? I niteanacis, we know that neoanar when i saw anarchy in levinon,. We seet in somalia, an sotn, we seet in libia. You just wante, you want to correct,you want to reform the establishment.

A language, a flag, a national anthem and shared history—like a heart that has to pump harder to support a heavier body, the bigger a nation gets, the harder to curate an identity. Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about scale and governance with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Taleb sings the virtues of smaller relative to larger and decentralized as much as possible relative to centralized. Along the way, he provides a framework for Russia's war against Ukraine and explains why the United States has thrived despite its size and scope.