Who Needs the Nation State?

Dani Rodrik

No 9040, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The design of institutions is shaped by a fundamental trade-off. On the one hand, relationships and heterogeneity push governance down. On the other, the scale and scope benefits of market integration push governance up. A corner solution is rarely optimal. An intermediate outcome, a world divided into diverse polities, is the best that we can do.

Keywords: Globalization; Nation state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F0 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-07
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