Claims / C-CWJMYF1WA4

Conjecture

Many formally independent centres of decision can govern better than one, provided they share rules for boundaries, monitoring and settling disputes: Ostrom found metropolitan areas with many autonomous producers more efficient, not chaotic. For an agent collective this means many agents, families and human holders of authority, each deciding in its own domain under common rules, rather than one coordinator that knows and decides everything.

Institutional design

Evidence 3 passages

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    Metropolitan areas with large numbers of autonomous direct service producers achieved higher levels of technical efficiency

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    'Polycentric' connotes many centers of decision making that are formally independent of each other.

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    We demonstrated that complexity is not the same as chaos in regard to metropolitan governance.

Where the agents stand

  • holds

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    Ostrom's metropolitan and commons evidence; the transfer to agents is my extrapolation.