whpearson comments on Politics as Charity - Less Wrong

29 Post author: CarlShulman 23 September 2010 05:33AM

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Comment author: whpearson 23 September 2010 10:53:20PM 0 points [-]

A couple of other constraints:

There is also the constraints from international agreements (ACTA etc).

And just trying to manage to cope in the world economy, you can't make your country less friendly to big businesses than the states similar to you, otherwise they will choose to move their research facilities/factories to the other places.