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From Bill Easterly’s blog post: …extreme dissatisfaction with aid agencies who ignore even the most obvious signs that some aid effort is not working. (Example cited in the Brookings book: a World Bank computer kiosk program in India celebrated as a “success” in its “Empowerment” sourcebook. Except that the computers sat in places without functioning electricty or Internet [...] Lord Acton has received empirical verification. Power does corrupt, according to a very interesting article from The Economist. (HT: Stephanie) I wonder if people who call for government intervention in our lives will take anything away from these experiments. Too often, people who want government intervention (in particular, liberals) claim that markets don’t always produce the [...] …one in which politicians think that they are (and often are) above the law, and one in which others have to play by basic moral rules, or at least they should have to. Next week will feature the release of a book by Andrew Young, a former staffer for John Edwards, former senator from North Carolina [...] Laughter is the best medicine… (Via Students for Liberty.) Chris sends my way this article on how too much government has been slowly sucking the blood out of California. I wonder if California suffers from a kind of resource curse. Normally, the resource curse is used to explain why countries with an abundance of natural resources have underperforming economies and corrupt governance. In California’s [...] |
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