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Americans were historically exceptional at building formal institutions, with more corporations than the rest of the world combined in 1812, and freedom of association is so important to Americans it’s protected in the First Amendment (since abrogated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964). Formal institutions are sometimes set against individual agency (consider the pain of interacting with the DMV), but it very much depends on the context. If Americans in the 19th century needed...