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When a law is written down rigorously, specifying precisely what is acceptable and unacceptable, competition obliges people to find the most efficient behavior available inside those rules, which is typically behavior located right at the boundary of what is permissible.

When a law is written down rigorously, specifying precisely what is acceptable and not acceptable, people are obligated by competition to find the most efficient behavior possible within those rules.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021), Prehistory of information technology, p. 6
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

• competitive environments
• rigorously codified rules

mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: Boundary probing under codified lawfamily: enforcement-gaprisk-and-incentiveseconomicsdecentralization

• extended_by kaal:claim:3782203-003 Strict letter of the law regimes, which the authors call protocol centralization, produce rigid and temporaril...

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