What Clay Shirky thinks about government

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American writer on the social and economic effects of the internet, author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive Surplus (2010); has taught at New York University.

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1. 1 Apr 2010

   Our readingIn a bureaucracy it is easier to add complexity than to remove it.

   Their wordsIn a bureaucracy, it’s easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

   ↗The Collapse of Complex Business Modelsshirky.com 1st of 3 in this piece