I would say that this was a combination of two features: the fact that Greece is mountainous ( I think this is the major reason) so the cities were located in valleys that were not easily accessible from other valleys, and that there were many islands
These both features made communication more difficult and defense easier.
<span>Indigo, rice, and tobacco are three important crops from that period. Indigo was used for dye, easy to grow but hard to harvest; rice is always an important staple crop and was grown in the swampy waters near the coast; tobacco is also a very profitable crop.</span>
The producers can create their maximum combination of goods,
as long as the producers address the consumer desires. In this way, they may
likely be efficient with the resources they get and use in a way of creating
goods that will be useful and that it won’t go to waste.
they derive from the right of congress to make all laws neccessary and proper, to carry out its enumerated powers.
There are good arguments on both sides as to when and how fast to reopen the economy. In my view, the answer will vary state by state and industry by industry. There’s also an enormous amount of uncertainty as to exactly how to determine the optimal policy. In that environment, there’s a great advantage to having these decisions be made at as local a level as possible. Thus, while I suspect that Sweden’s current policy is not optimal, that Nordic country is doing a great service to Europe by providing evidence on the consequences of an alternative policy path.
Giving too much power to any one person is dangerous, especially when that person might be influenced by political considerations that go beyond the best interest of the country as a whole:
That’s not to say Trump’s views are necessary wrong; rather that the procedure he uses to reach decisions is not reliable. Thus I’d still favor local control even if in one particular case you could convince me that the views of the person who happened to be president at the time were superior to the views of the average mayor or governor. In the long run, competition between states will produce better governance than central planning.
