The "bricks and clicks" model, as Lehigh University's Snyder describes it, calls for moving some goods to large centralized distribution centers, which have the economies of scale to lower the carrying costs of inventory.

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But, the reality is that his policies do indeed require a fairly large-scale centralized plan.

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Gladstone saw that the maintenance of the liberal state was incompatible with holding within its centralized grip a large disaffected community of settled mind.

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As the Fed replaces large decentralized financial markets with centralized decision making by a few central bank officials, it distorts incentives and interferes with price discovery, with negative consequences for the economy.

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The fossil fuel banking infrastructure is based on financing large projects with a limited number of players: centralized infrastructure, and centralized finance.

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It does this using the BitTorrent protocol, in which the large files are split up into small pieces which are then distributed from peer to peer, rather than from one centralized server.

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