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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
One unpopular position I’ve stuck to over the years is that a strong bureaucracy is good. I don’t mean “bureaucracy” as in red tape and regulation; I mean a competent, empowered civil service that can perform crucial government functions efficiently and well using in-house expertise. This is also called state capacity.
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