Thanks for the link! This passage stuck out at me: "But we were all told a decade ago, when the Soviet Union collapsed, that hierarchical organizations simply

Thanks for the link! This passage stuck out at me: "But we were all told a decade ago, when the Soviet Union collapsed, that hierarchical organizations simply did not work as modes of organizing economic life--that you needed a market in order to achieve anything better than low-productivity, bureaucracy-ridden economic stagnation. What, then, are all these large corporations--ATT and IBM, General Motors and Toyota, Microsoft and USX--doing? What methods of corporate control have saved them from turning into smaller versions of the unproductive Soviet economy?" Given some of the tales of corporate excesses that I have heard, I would answer... absolutely nothing. Thankfully we are still far enough away from the situation where a few megacorporations dominate our everyday lives (as worrying as the recent trends are) that society at large is shielded from this.