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So, classes have started up once again; I have only the spring, summer, and fall 2005 terms left at Dear ‘Ol Nebraska U… Anyway, I’m taking Design Studio, 2 ECON classes, and 1 FINA class. For some completely planned reason, all 3 non-DS courses have “Finance” in the course title (Public, International, and Real Estate, for the curious). Anyway, I had a random flash of insight in my Public Finance class that I thought I’d throw out there for the world to digest and comment upon:
- As any society grows at some function X (X being some extremely expansive function that measures overall socioeconomic complexity, somehow); the institutions in place to administer/regulate it (usually governmental units, but not necessarily) will generally grow at a rate that is greater than X.
I haven’t yet nailed down a rate that I can use on a regular basis, but I feel that this rate could be anything from 2X to O(x log x) to O(x^2). What do you think? Am I way off-base for even thinking of this in the first place?
Tom said,
January 16, 2005 @ 12:37 pm
I’ll medidate upon this and post it over at FMA, Jesse. I’m thinking it’s on the order of a power or an exponential function. I’m doing some work on the complexities of planning systems — and since social agencies seem to be involved with planning for the State — that may provide an insight.