"Anthropological Parsimony"

At the end of my last post I introduced a slightly bullshit phrase in passing - “anthropological parsimony” - as a way of getting a half-baked notion out there on the premise that I could make good on it later, when I’d built up a head of steam. So, this is an attempt at that.

There’s a commonplace in management theory, for which I cannot find an authori…