English Explanatory Dictionary

Shirky principle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The idea that institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Word forms

Shirky principle the Shirky principle

Etymology

Named after the American technology writer Clay Shirky.

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