The choice, then, of nation states today is how to manage decentralisation. What politicians just don't seem to understand is that we in the West are on the same path as the former Soviet Union. The only way to reduce the expanding fireball that will consume our Western nations is decentralisation - to throw off the ballast of bureaucracy. 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.