The Economic Way of Thinking 13th Edition by David Prychitko, Peter Boettke, Paul Heyne

Exercise 5

In the movie The Godfather , Vito Corleone (the Godfather himself) had several scarce talents, from organizing his "family" to stabbing and killing others. Why, then, did he tend to specialize exclusively in overseeing the family and employ others to take on the other jobs? Why, typically, don't presidents of a country lead battles in other lands, or even on their own home turf?