Another Austrian, the political scientist Leopold Kohr in the 1950s, began a lifetime campaign against empires, large nations, and bigness in general. As he wrote, “there seems to be only one cause behind all forms of social misery: bigness. Oversimplified as this may seem, we shall find the idea more easily acceptable if we consider that bigness, or oversize, is really much more than just a social problem.… Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.”10
