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Sparta is a cautionary tale rather than a model: an over-militarised, paranoid state that added only oppression to human experience.

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

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  1. Bret Devereaux Ancient and military historian specialising in the economy…
    Sparta was – if you will permit the comparison – an ancient North Korea. An over-militarized, paranoid state which was able only to protect its own systems of internal brutality and which added only oppression to the sum of the human experience.

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