[governance] The danger of blindly trusting the technocrats

[michael gurstein]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/the-danger-of-blin
dly-trusting-the-technocrats/article12106081/#dashboard/follows/

Worth taking a look at (and thinking through the relevance of) the
underlying paper http://www.nber.org/papers/w18921.pdf?new_window=1 whose
central argument is that successful policy (both in terms of social equity
but also in terms of economic benefit) is ultimately about finding political
solutions rather than relying on technical ones.

Perhaps of equal relevance in IG as in economic policy.

M


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