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Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey

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The Architecture of Prismod

I heard a story that you famously wrote Prismod in 1991 on about 20 odd sheets of paper one night. Is that, is that correct? And how much of policy happens like that? You know, like a brilliant public servant just kind of whipping something up versus like a slower, more formal process. I don't know the answer to that question. But it's probably both a good thing and a bad thing that humans are capable of, that sort of thing.You see it all over the place, not just in policy development, right? And sometimes it's for the good. Sometimes it's actually for the bad. So can you can correct this if it's wrong?

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