Regulations that impose artificial capitalization and other overhead costs, the purchase of unnecessarily expensive equipment of a sort that requires large batch production to amortize, the use of stand-alone buildings, etc., increase the size of the minimum revenue stream required to stay in business, and effectively rule out part-time or intermittent self-employment. That’s as true for the household microenterprise, and for the “enterprise” of the household itself, as for more conventional businesses. The higher the fixed costs of an enterprise, the larger the income stream required to service them. One of the implicit themes in Organization Theory which I have attempted to develop since, and which is central to this book, is the central role of fixed costs-initial capital outlays and other overhead-in economics. And as I wrote those papers, I began to see them as the building blocks for a stand-alone book. I soon found that it wasn’t going to stop there, as I elaborated on the same theme in a series of C4SS papers on industrial history. In my first paper as research associate at Center for a Stateless Society, I attempted to tie these themes together and develop them in greater detail in the form of a short monograph. As I completed that book, I was focused on several themes that, while they recurred throughout the book, were imperfectly tied together and developed. When the book went to press, I didn’t feel that I was done writing about those things. ![]() ![]() ![]() In researching and writing my last book, Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, I was probably more engaged and enthusiastic about working on material related to micromanufacturing, the microenterprise, the informal economy, and the singularity resulting from them, than on just about any other part of the book. And the memory of my father, Amos Morgan Carson.
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