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Scaling Cooperation
What You Will Gain
After this course, you will be able to analyze how cooperation moves from pairs to groups to polities, and identify the organizational forms that emerge at each scale.
About This Course
How cooperation scales from dyad to group to polity. Types of human organizations: kin group, tribe, firm, corporation, state. What changes at each threshold and why most groups fail to scale.
Curriculum
- 01
Why Do Large Groups Strain?
Concept: Enforcement Thresholds
- 02
Why Does a Handshake Fail in a City?
Concept: Enforcement Mechanisms at Each Level
- 03
What Breaks First, and in What Order?
Concept: The Prerequisites Chain
- 04
Why Does Every Form of Group Have a Ceiling?
Concept: Organizational Forms at Each Scale
Capstone Project
The Scale Diagnosis: a full scale analysis of one real organization you belong to. Its size against the enforcement threshold, the mechanisms that enforce cooperation inside it, the weakest layer of its cooperation stack, the failure it is most likely to suffer, and the minimum repair that would hold.
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