A preponderance of small producers and buyers must effectuate enormously complex coordination

Evidence

The number of fruit and vegetable counters and stands throughout the country, to whom these intermediaries sell, must run into the hundreds of thousands. The very existence of all these enterprises bespeaks advance planning, and interdependencies for the fulfillment of plans, comparable to those of farmers. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 1020

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Invisible institutional arrangements coordinate activity as much as visible technology does. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1008; Cooperative social groups must balance growth benefits against interdependence costs at an optimal size — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2506; Small groups cooperate easily but large groups fail without coordination — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 412 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Global markets are assembled through microsocial patterns of relatedness and coordination #expands (0.80) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 1086
• Small groups cooperate easily but large groups fail without coordination #expands (0.78) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 412
• Cooperative social groups must balance growth benefits against interdependence costs at an optimal size #corroborates (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2506