Ep 185: Fixing Indian Education
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Sanctimonious Left, So to Say
Bureaucrats just want to maximize their own budgets. They don't care about anything, you want to grow your department and the number of people who report to you - that's a game. And politicians have the same kind of incentives where they are always catering for the next elections. So this kind of longtemism may not really have an impact. But i think what we need to do a lot more hard work on is decentralization. Because all the well intentioned ideas will not happen without thinking through, how do you make this incentive compatible political? The implication is, howDo you make democracy work better? Right?
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