Sowing Dragons

[Brad De Long]

>Brad De Long wrote:
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>>And what makes a state able to give orders?
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>Lawyers, guns, and money, to quote Warren Zevon.
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>Doug

Still older is the Byzantine definition: "A standing army of 
soldiers, a sitting army of bureaucrats, a kneeling army of priests, 
and a creeping army of informers..."