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兩黨的意識型態對壘，有時是因為社群媒體所引發的各種文化衝突，社群工具
對政治的影響力有好也有壞。

撰文：David Stinson孫維德

貝爾經濟學獎得主道格拉斯 ‧ 諾思 作，這個領域在研究企業規模多大的時候最有

諾 （Douglass North）的《西方世界的興 效率。依照諾思的說法，新科技的出現，讓效
起》（The Rise of the Western World: A New 率最高的軍事組織規模變大，世界上因不需要
Economic History）是制度經濟學的經典之 那麼多個獨立政體，於是爆發了百年戰爭。

Culture wars and the dark ages of social media

The first important fact to understand about the tech sector is that it’s big business, with
all of the usual political implications.

“ THistory,” by Economics Nobel Prize winner The dark ages of social media
he Rise of the Western World: A New Economic

Douglass North, is a classic text in institutional “Taken together, the [14th and 15th] centuries
economics, the branch of economics that show a transformation in warfare and led to an

describes the optimal size of the firm. In this ever-growing fiscal crisis. The financial resources
history, North describes how an increase in the necessary for survival, i.e., to quickly field a modern
size of the most efficient military unit due to army, exceeded those available in the traditional
technological innovations reduced the number feudal barony. The result was an era of almost
of independent polities needed, leading to the unbelievable turmoil, amalgamation, terror, murder,
Hundred Years War. internal and external strife, intrigue and counter-

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