The Shirky Principle: Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution – Effectiviology

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“The Shirky principle is the adage that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”. More broadly, it can also be characterized as the adage that “every entity tends to prolong the problem it is solving”.