The Importance of Localizing Decisions

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I've updated on a lot in the past few years is the importance of like localizing decisions to the people who have the most information about what to do. And I now think that your my default your default prior should be to localize the decisions as much as possible. So get the decisions away from the bureaucrat that's 1000 miles away in the capital city. Unless you need to coordinate behavior among many other local actors who can't coordinate because of like structural incentive problems, which does happen sometimes,.

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