Mondragon represents the best illustration of the Jack Manno prescription that I have discovered in the world. Dunbar also reports research which suggested that 500 people represents a critical threshold beyond which social cohesion can be maintained only if there is an appropriate number of authoritarian officials consistent with the limits adopted at Mondragon and shows that Fritz Schumacher is right. There are much more compelling evidence to support the prescription of Jack Manno contained in my latest academic paper which I will presenting in Madison on July 11th this year to the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Jeff said he did not know how to replicate Mondragon in his response to Charles Michael. My suggestion is not to bother as it will trap society into a market paradigm.
Markets are efficient because prices contain so little information.
They thus provide a very inefficient way to communicate the complexities of caring. For market minded analysts, the objective should be to use the Ownership Solution to allocate resources to local small scale caring units of society. This thoughts leads us back to the goals of the seminar. In this way the size of government could be reduced rather than being institutionalized as required by the Georgist solution.