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Coordination Costs

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This explainer will cover:

  • Why coordination costs rise nonlinearly as group size and distance increase
  • How transaction, trust, and monitoring costs reshape what institutions can scale
  • Case study: Early tax systems and the administrative burden of surplus control

Related: See Stranger Problems for context.

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