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The Civil Service versus the Treasury
The Civil Service versus the Treasury From Yes, Prime Minister (BBC) Categories: Run time: 4:24 Note: At four and a half minutes this is one[…]
Buying Local in Secret City
Buying Local in Secret City From Secret City (ABC Australia) Categories: Run time: 1:10 Clip Description: The Australian defense minister has to choose between submarines[…]
Communism in The Last of Us
A community organised on collective principles after the collapse of the state, described by its members in exactly those terms and working - for now[…]
Trade Restrictions Raise Chicken Prices in House of the Dragon
A blockade drives up the price of food in the city. Fifty-nine seconds in which a political decision made elsewhere turns into a price a[…]
Rent Seeking in Succession
Effort is spent not on making anything but on capturing a share of what already exists - positioning, lobbying and manoeuvring for a transfer rather[…]
The Principal-Agent Problem in Succession
An owner tries to get subordinates to act in the owner's interest, and discovers the ordinary problem of not being able to see what they[…]
Homer Simpson Says Communism Works in Theory
Homer offers the most common thing anyone says about communism - that it works in theory - and the joke is that he has no[…]
Communism in The Hunger Games
Panem's districts each produce one thing and see almost none of it. The Capitol consumes what the districts make, and the arrangement is presented as[…]