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2017
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[Journal:] PLoS ONE [Volume:] 12 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] The Bichler and Nitzan Archives [Place:] Toronto [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 1-22
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The Bichler and Nitzan Archives, Toronto
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Why do institutions grow? Despite nearly a century of scientific effort, there remains little consensus on this topic. This paper offers a new approach that focuses on energy consumption. A systematic relation exists between institution size and energy consumption per capita: as energy consumption increases, institutions become larger. I hypothesize that this relation results from the interplay between technological scale and human biological limitations. I also show how a simple stochastic model can be used to link energy consumption with firm dynamics.
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complexity
energy
human biology
institutions
hierarchy
technology
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