This is one of those articles I wish I had access to when I was teaching. People always seem to assume that bigger is better, but don’t understand why or under what conditions. Then you try to explain that the production cost curve for an organization is almost always U shaped, and it all falls apart. This makes a great little primer, with enough extra detail to make it interesting. (Maybe only to nerds.)
The coordination disutility of scale I think is critical in our modern economy, and I think under appreciated. That’s an essay for another time.