# kaal:claim:3782201-016

**Claim.** Middlemen such as police, lawyers, and insurance salesmen are the catalysts that exist to overcome the friction of economic corruption, and engineers who eliminate them mistake the catalyst for the friction.

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

**Source quote.**

> Middlemen are the catalysts that exist to overcome the friction of economic cor- ruption. Police, lawyers, and insurance salesmen eliminate threats to business activity from different angles.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Future of Decentralization* (2021), The fallacy of Uniformitarianism and Chesterton’s fence, page 21

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

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**Topics.** economics, institutional-design

**Keywords.** intermediaries, catalysts, economic-friction, institutions

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