https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/06/16/regime-types-and-deja-vu/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:26:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/06/16/regime-types-and-deja-vu/#comment-779 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:26:30 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/regime-types-and-deja-vu/#comment-779 I recently read some of Douglass North’s work. He’s an economist who is interested in the incentives created by the formal and informal constraints of a society. He is particularly interested in why inefficient societies that discourage productive innovation survive. One of his points is that formal constraints (like laws) change after revolutions. But the revolutionaries always find the informal constraints more resilient. Cultures don’t change easily or quickly.

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