[governance] The danger of blindly trusting the technocrats

[Roland Perry]

In message <018b01ce59e0$e04fde00$a0ef9a00$@gmail.com>, at 10:15:31 on 
Sun, 26 May 2013, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> writes
>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.

Technocrats are very poor at predicting unintended consequences. That 
may sound like a truism, but it's often possible for a fresh pair of 
less rosy-spectacled eyes to spot a drawback that the original team 
didn't. And the "team" can be quite a big one.
-- 
Roland Perry

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