9 Responses to The Ides of March

1. invertedlogicblog says:

   March 15, 2022 at 23:47

   Alternate title : Political treachery.

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   • F. E. Guerra-Pujol says:

     March 16, 2022 at 02:12

     Political vipers!

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     • invertedlogicblog says:

       March 16, 2022 at 02:47

       Isn’t that what all elected officials are?
     • F. E. Guerra-Pujol says:

       March 16, 2022 at 02:50

       that is why most taxes are theft
     • invertedlogicblog says:

       March 16, 2022 at 02:50

       I should also, add corporate managers to the list of “political vipers”; including mid-level as well!
     • F. E. Guerra-Pujol says:

       March 16, 2022 at 02:50

       “enablers”
     • invertedlogicblog says:

       March 16, 2022 at 05:29

       I was thinking within the parameters of a firm more so than the interaction of the organization with political institutions.

       The work in Constitutional political economics shows that non-government institutions do have many of the same features of and engaging in
       “Political decision-making”. The folks at George Mason have applied these concepts to biker gangs and pirates, but when will someone study a corporate office environments? There is meta-level constitutional rule-making, political exchange, coalitions, “codified” internal procedures, rent-seeking, concentrated interests, policy entrepreneurship, top-down governance structure, .. and all of the above is driven by a number of competing inter-personal incentive structures amalgamating into a single functioning business. Needless to say various forms log rolling and other varieties of negotiations take place at the micro and macro level of the organization.
     • F. E. Guerra-Pujol says:

       March 16, 2022 at 06:32

       Your point about office politics is well-taken; also, let’s add “Cosa Nostra Courts” to the mix: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3977333
     • invertedlogicblog says:

       March 17, 2022 at 16:45

       I second that.