Part IV: Social Bonds
Implications for Institutional Design
Introduction
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Implications for Institutional Design
Well-designed institutions maintain clear separation between relationship-type manifolds:
- Conflict-of-interest policies prevent transactional manifolds from contaminating fiduciary manifolds
- Professional ethics codes prevent personal manifolds from contaminating professional manifolds
- Church-state separation prevents religious manifolds from contaminating governance manifolds
- Academic tenure prevents employment manifolds from contaminating truth-seeking manifolds
Each of these is a technology for preventing the gradient conflict that arises when manifolds that should be separate become entangled.