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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: On the Problem of Scale -- References -- Chapter 2: Economic Cubism, Economic Surrealism, and Scale Relativity -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Scale Invariance -- 2.3 Cubism and Scale Invariance -- 2.4 Surrealism and Scale Invariance -- 2.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Scale Invariance in Constitutional Political Economy (CPE) -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 CPE's Scale Invariance -- 3.3 CPE's Dichotomies -- 3.3.1 The Analogy Between Markets and Politics -- 3.3.2 CPE and Complexity -- 3.3.3 CPE and Methodological Individualism -- 3.3.4 Modalities of Small-Scale Organization -- 3.3.4.1 Rationality -- 3.3.4.2 Risk Aversion and Privacy -- 3.3.4.3 The Contractarian Approach and the Origin of the State -- 3.3.4.4 Economies of Scale and Political Group Size -- 3.3.4.5 Power Relations and Welfare Economics -- 3.3.5 Modalities of Large-Scale Organization -- 3.3.5.1 Political Economy and the National Scale -- 3.3.5.2 The State as a Machine -- 3.3.5.3 Methodological Individualism -- 3.3.5.4 Homo Economicus -- 3.4 Examples of CPE's Scale Invariance -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: The Tower of Babel Syndrome -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Emergence of the Ecological Crisis -- 4.3 Locality in the Responses to the Ecological Crisis -- 4.3.1 The Historical Response -- 4.3.2 The Modern Response -- 4.3.3 Localism and the Earth Charter -- 4.3.3.1 The Preamble -- 4.3.3.2 The Principles -- 4.3.3.3 The Way Forward -- 4.3.3.4 How the Modern Response Marginalized Localism: The Fiction of 'Indigenous Peoples' -- 4.3.4 How the Modern Response Marginalized Localism: The 'Natural Rights' Paradigm -- 4.3.5 The 'Complexity Imperative' Illusion -- 4.3.6 Summary -- 4.4 Concluding Remarks -- References.

This book ranks all world countries according to their economic efficiency. Some of the rankings challenge existing conceptions. The second purpose is normative, furnishing specific insights into the determinants of economic efficiency. The emphasis is on this second objective. The analysis explores how countries can reduce their jurisdictional footprints to the end of improving their economic efficiency.

This paper argues that sovereignty, as envisaged by Spinoza, is the logical foundation of constitutional economics. Constitutional constructs such as sovereignty weave an evolutionary dialectic between different organizational scales (the local, national, and global). This dialectic continues to wreak havoc at the local scale, and can be interrupted only through explicit constitutional constraints on the size of jurisdictions. The paper argues for more emphasis on constitutional orders in the spirit of Spinoza's understanding of sovereignty. This entails preference for federal polities in which sovereignty is shared between different cities rather states where once capital cities dominate.

International audience ; This paper argues that sovereignty, as envisaged by Spinoza, is the logical foundation of constitutional economics. Constitutional constructs such as sovereignty weave an evolutionary dialectic between different organizational scales (the local, national, and global). This dialectic continues to wreak havoc at the local scale, and can be interrupted only through explicit constitutional constraints on the size of jurisdictions. The paper argues for more emphasis on constitutional orders in the spirit of Spinoza's understanding of sovereignty. This entails preference for federal polities in which sovereignty is shared between different cities rather states where once capital cities dominate.

The San Franciscan Origins -- The World's First Sharing City -- The Story of the Sharing Cities Alliance -- The transformation of Milan -- Sharing Towns - Building success with the sharing economy outside big cities -- Sharing cities in Australia -- The status of the sharing economy in Japan -- Challenges and expectations in Taiwan -- Laissez faire and sharing in Hong Kong -- Beppu -- Chiba -- Dublin -- Fort Lauderdale -- Gothenburg -- Hong Kong -- Ilsan -- Ishinomaki -- Kuala Lumpur -- Malmö -- Matsuyama -- Milan -- Osaka -- Perth -- Selangor -- Darul -- Ehsan -- Seoul -- Shinagawa -- Singapore -- Stockholm -- Sydney -- Taiwan -- Taku -- Teshio -- Umeå.