# kaal:claim:3782192-025

**Claim.** Advances in technology have given decentralized systems the efficiency they lacked in previous eras, the very deficiency that allowed them to be outcompeted by centralized systems; this is the book's central thesis.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- the current era of information technology

**Source quote.**

> The goal of this book is to show that advances in technology have given decentral- ized systems the efficiency they have lacked in previous eras and that allowed them to be outcompeted by centralized systems.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Introduction to Decentralization* (2021), Basic idea, page 7

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

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**Topics.** decentralization, economics

**Keywords.** decentralization, technology, efficiency, competition, thesis

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