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Why are most politicians in Western Democracies lawyers?
While Chile is benefiting greatly right now from the decentralization of the economy Pinochet began, he was a brutal thug who killed thousands of his own people.
If I thought hell existed, I'd be happy he was rotting there.
I've already listed the issues on which current policy diverges from the great bulk of informed opinion. And I agree that economists are not a monolithic block. That's why I'd poll them on given policies and reject the policy if more than 40% of them disagreed with it. As far as I can tell, this would lead to pretty solid outcomes...
I doubt things like farm subsidies occur because lawyers are unable to see why they're a waste. I think it has more to do with the influence of special interests than the competence of the people in office.
I wasn't simply suggesting that politicians be selected from among economists; I was suggesting that political power be taken out of the hands of idiots who elect politicians to support crap like that...
a) Other developing nations are often run by military strongmen; I agree that a warlord is probably a worse choice than an engineer to run a country
b) While this is true, and is a very good point, I wonder whether or not this is simply a case of moving power from an even more control-oriented group (political philosophers of the Marxist tradition)...
Or engineers are less dogmatic than marxist political philosophers and more willing to adopt a decentralized economy if they have a better track record.
Now, obviously that is an impossibility (for some very good reasons), but if we're simply suggesting the former, then I don't see the point; we'll continue to have policies mainly dictated by the public.
I wasn't simply suggesting that politicians be selected from among economists; I was suggesting that political power be taken out of the hands of idiots who elect politicians to support crap like that...
What would you do, only let people with PhD's vote?
In other words, in a modern democracy, the identity of politicians doesn't really matter that much. If we're just arguing about that, then there's no point.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
If all of the economics decisions were made before lunch-time on the first day of the first session of the legislature, like you are suggesting, they would bicker about non-economics things for the next 364.75 days of the year.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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