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   "text": "Traditional jurisdictional principles cannot directly apply to blockchain technology because the blockchain is merely a collection of agreed upon calculations by decentralized computer systems, and no particular node holds the entire blockchain.",
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   "text": "The strong trust that sustained Maghribi trade, in which embezzlement was rare despite extreme information asymmetry, cannot be explained by a strong centralized government, since the Maghribis could not form a centralized legal or political hierarchy and the official legal channels were slow and unreliable.",
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   "text": "Strict legal enforcement is an inefficient remedy for opportunism because every unit of energy devoted to policing is energy that could instead have been used to cooperate productively.",
   "abstract": "Strict legal enforcement is not efficient, because all energies devoted to policing are ener- gies that could be used to cooperate productively.",
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   "text": "Strict legal enforcement becomes impossible once a market is sufficiently complex and dynamic, because law cannot keep pace with the creative contracts that leading experts continually invent.",
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