http://www.amazon.co.uk/Swarmwise-Tactical-Manual-Changing-World/dp/1463533152

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2710

I like the first link because it is at least trying to move past feudalism as an organizing principle. The second link is about the fact that it is hard to make groups of people act like we want (because groups of people operate under a set of poorly understood laws, likely these laws are cousins to things like natural selection in biology).

Public choice folks like to study this stuff, but it seems really really hard.