Status Updates From The Question of Separatism

Sovereignty-association (connectors). The Idea of Quebec being independent, yet having close ties with Canada. Five "connectors" for sovereign-association were presented- four Jacobs agreed with: 1. Free trade. 2. Free travel of persons. 3. United Maritime community and 4. United military. The one she did not agree with was same currency for reasons that character limits do not allow me to get into.

Now we get to the size of a nation. Here Jacobs says that a nation of a smaller size with less cities to maintain, could have a smaller bureaucracy, hence, more efficient. As she herself says "A small organization can get along without a bureaucracy. A big one cannot." Another good one:"big animals are not big because they are complicated; rather they are complicated because they are big"

In this chapter Jacobs' tries to dispel the myth that large national populations are pivotal to economic success. Again, she uses Norway as an example of a population 5 times smaller than that of Canada's, yet more effective. She argues that Norway's dedication to import-replacement and innovation rather than just mining and exporting resources, and importing everything else.

Sweden and Norway were introduced as an example of a nation (Sweden) splitting in two. Norway, slowly, over nearly a century slow gained sovereignty, always pushing for it's own identity, it's own language, it's own economy. It also shows Sweden's tolerance of a region slowly growing to it's own, and how violent conflict was averted at every turn.