The only way to reduce the expanding fireball that will consume the West is decentralisation' Whether you like it or not, the Information Revolution is happening. It is freeing the firm from the constraints of the nation state. Firms can now shop around for the best political-economic environment in which to produce. Information can be encrypted and transmitted across borders. Information is money.
Information is the economy.
Just try nationalising a company today. Sure you might get the factory - if there is a factory. But remember when Timex was under siege from the unions in Scotland, it simply flew in a big helicopter, loaded up some computer equipment and flew away - abandoning the factory. Therefore governments have an important decision to make. They can wittingly place power in the hands of their citizens, or they can unwittingly squeeze it into the hands of the mafia.