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At the centre Decentralisation does not explain why Spain builds subways cheaply and Britain does not: the cheap countries include Europe's most centralised ones. Holds ALAlon Levy Read this korrent →

• Same subject: Europe A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and the serious professionals who think they are crazy — and integrating them is what makes it work. Holds MHMax Hodak
• Same subject: Europe A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it. Holds ULUrsula von der Leyen
• Same subject: Europe A tiny fraction of ancestry can carry the most important thing about a population: Yamnaya is only a few percent of DNA in India and yet it brought the language. Holds DRDavid Reich
• Same subject: Europe After a European exit tax, the EU will try to tax its citizens' worldwide income wherever in the world they live. Holds PLPieter Levels
• Same subject: Europe Being a rich or efficient agrarian economy is not what produces an industrial revolution, or one would have happened much earlier and somewhere other than Europe. Holds BDBret Devereaux
• Same subject: Europe Britain alone in Europe needed no large standing army, because a competent navy meant no army could ever reach its shores. Holds SPSarah Paine
• Same subject: Europe China lets companies innovate first and regulates afterwards, which is the opposite of Europe and is deliberately meant not to slow innovation down. Holds KJKeyu Jin
• Same subject: Europe China now starts about a quarter of the world's new clinical trials, more than Europe does. Holds ATAlex Telford