“As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane metaphorically described the advantages of smallness: “You can drop a mouse down a thousandyard mineshaft; and on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man broken, a horse splashes.”3”
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James C. Scott,
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
