Liam Bright

In the intro to Scott's 'Seeing Like a State' he cautions that despite superficial similarities between his argument and people like Hayek >

> his argument applies just as much to corporate authorities hierarchically managing complex activities.

And some of his examples are World Bank/IMF backed projects, or in the case of Soviet agriculture, had origins in US Fordism.

Essentially, hierarchy has an information problem. Unfiltered info leads to paralysis and overload, signal lost in noise.

But given as hierarchy implies divergent interests between managers and managed, incentives >

> are towards gaming any filtered/selected metrics. Which in turn creates monitoring and surveillance costs.

Hence the libertarian arguments usually deployed for the market against the state, equally apply against separation of labour and control.

a.k.a. private property. There's similar arguments about markets systematically losing pertinent information (i.e. 'externalities').