# kaal:claim:3782193-011

**Claim.** No set of written rules can be made complete: the Folk Theorems demonstrate that however rules are written, strategies exist that follow those rules yet profit the individual at the expense of the group, so a perfect secular constitution is impossible.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- any static, formally specified set of rules governing a group

**Source quote.**

> The Folk theories demonstrate that how- ever the rules are written, strategies exist which follow the rules, yet profit the indi- vidual at the expense of the group.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization* (2021), Prehistory of information technology, page 6

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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**Failure mode.** Incompleteness of static rule sets  (family: enforcement-gap)

**Topics.** economics, governance-design

**Keywords.** folk-theorems, game-theory, constitution-design, rule-incompleteness, governance

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