Thursday, April 23, 2020

Gosh! I wonder what happened to the public realm?


From Jeffrey Sachs (in the New Yorker):

Nobody here has viewed government as actually very functional for a long time, and not because it couldn’t be. It has been increasingly designed to fail. Specifically, it’s been designed to respond to powerful lobbies that want deregulation or tax cuts or some special privileges rather than to function in a normal way.
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