Coordinating Collaboration |
هم آهنگ ساختن همگاری |
This theory holds that the main function of planning is to coordinate collaboration. Incorporates theories of institutional economics. Measures success by reduction of transaction costs and by better linking costs and benefits to the parties that create the costs and benefits...
Nowruz 2009, US President
Barak Obama wished Iranians a happy Now Ruz.
He also gave Iranian leaders some "choices". A move that will, no doubt, inspire an immediate "Tu quoque" reflex and be dismissed.
What is "tu quoque", how does it kill conversation, and how might a Foreign Policy Museum on the Washington Mall change that? Let's explore.
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In his book, "
Seeing like a State", James C. Scott describes the mechanism at the heart of a state's (government's) tendency to sedenterize (settle) nomads as "the state's attempt to make a society legible." He further develops the thesis that
legibility is "a central problem of statecraft."
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We have translated the first 2 pages of the book "
Property Rights, Planning and Markets" by Chris Webster and Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai into Persian (used by kind permission from the author, all rights reserved). It is posted here to introduce the concepts, stimulate discussion and as a sample of translated academic writing for Persian students of the English language class. Thanks to M. Jahangiri for excellence in translation.
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