What Samuel Hammond thinks about government

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Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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1. 18 Dec 2025

   Our readingDifferent forms of government map closely onto different corporate governance structures because both arise from the same transaction-cost logic.

   Their wordsThere is a close mapping between government ideal types and corporate governance structures given their shared origins in transaction costs.

   ↗Notes from the UAEsecondbest.ca 2nd of 3 in this piece