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Andreas Marquart\u00a0and Philipp Bagus\u00a0(see their mises.org author pageshere <\/a>and here<\/a>) were recently interviewed about their new book by the Austrian Economics Center. Unfortunately for English-language readers, the book is only available in German. Nevertheless, the interview offers some valuable insights.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Marquart, Mr. Bagus, you have released your new book \u201eWir schaffen das \u2013 alleine<\/a>!\u201d (\u201cWe can do it \u2013 alone!\u201d) this spring. The subtitle says: \u201cWhy small states are just better.\u201d To begin: Why are small states generally better than larger ones?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andreas Marquart (AM): In small states the government is closer to its citizens and by that better observable and controllable by the populace. Small states are more flexible and are better at reacting and adapting to challenges. Furthermore, there is a tendency that small states are more peaceful, because they can\u2019t produce all goods and services by themselves and are thereby dependent on undisturbed trade.<\/p>\n

How far can the principle of small states go? You are for example open to the idea of Bavaria seceding from Germany, or Upper Bavaria then from the rest of Bavaria. Ludwig von Mises\u00a0stopped<\/a>\u00a0at the communal level, thinking that the secession of individuals would be unrealistic. You as well? Is there a point when your rule \u2013 the more decentralized the better \u2013 is not true anymore?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Philipp Bagus (PB): In principle not. We don\u2019t want to arrogate, however, to know the optimal size and to say that this state is too small and that one too big. The optimal size would be determined in competition through the right of secession. If an apartment tower or street secedes from its municipality and then concludes that there are problems which were previously done better, then the secession could be revoked and the two entities reunited.<\/p>\n

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Why Small States Are Better Andreas Marquart\u00a0and Philipp Bagus\u00a0(see their mises.org author pageshere and here) were recently interviewed about their new book by the Austrian Economics Center. Unfortunately for English-language readers, the book is only available in German. Nevertheless, the interview offers some valuable insights.\u00a0 Mr. Marquart, Mr. Bagus, you have released your new book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[16346,966,7617,16345,1073],"class_list":["post-26555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-andreas-marquart","tag-ludwig-von-mises","tag-mises-institute","tag-philipp-bagus","tag-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26556,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26555\/revisions\/26556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}