The Importance of an Audit Agency

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I think we need a very powerful audit agency, o, an agency that cana step in and evaluate a how how the atory agencies are doing. You know, things like, the government as notoriously poor at using technology. An auditd agency would maybe be able to identify ways in which technology needs to be upgraded or systems need to be upgraded.

Economist and author Arnold Kling talks about improving government regulation with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Kling suggests ways to improve the administrative state--the agencies and regulatory bodies that often write the regulations that they enforce. The conversation concludes with Kling's idea for holding public intellectuals accountable for their pronouncements.