In the thread to this
post over to Ballon Juice, I found the following comment:
In my county we’re now suffering the effects of having elected a county executive who promised to “run the county like a business” and has yet to discover that you can’t run something like a business that isn’t one. Why people always fall for this I do not know.
Followed by:
Somehow “Let’s run the county like a county” doesn’t pull in the votes, even though you would think it hard to argue with.
I would add lets run our educational systems like educational systems and not paper mills but yes, by all means, lets get back to running the country like it's a country instead of engaging in the useless fiction that MBAs and economists are ideally suited to run the world.
Great point, in addition I think we should stop thinking GDP is the be all end all for whether or not a country is successful
ReplyDeleteExactly, let's all stop thinking like economists and start thinking like humanists.
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason people call economics the dismal science. And it probably leads to a dismal life.
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