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It is also inapplicable to many decisions on big projects because they are so difficult or expensive to reverse that they are effectively irreversible:
Dan Gardner • How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
City Observatory
cityobservatory.org
The success of planning on such a scale may call for modesty and restraint in setting the design objectives
Herbert A. Simon • The Sciences of the Artificial
The size problem is made more complex by two more factors. One is that as the size of the operation increases, “dis-economies” of scale begin to creep in, as economists since Alfred Marshall in the 1920s have suggested. For example, as a firm adds more and more employees, it needs to add more managers, and ever-more complex systems of internal cont
... See moreTim Wu • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
How to Shape a Market
statecraft.pubThinking about cities
Zaira Vallejo • 2 cards
3. If you want good cheap infrastructure, build up state capacity
America has a big problem building infrastructure. Our roads and trains cost much more per mile than other rich countries. There are a number of reasons why this is the case, including land-use regulation, NIMBYism, and broken government contracting processes. But one reason is simpl... See more
America has a big problem building infrastructure. Our roads and trains cost much more per mile than other rich countries. There are a number of reasons why this is the case, including land-use regulation, NIMBYism, and broken government contracting processes. But one reason is simpl... See more