Every day the newspapers and TV detail new government pathologies: stolen elections, violence against citizens, official murders, destruction of villages and homes, corrupt police and public officials, and billions of dollars simply stolen for the personal gain of some ruling elite. People know that governments are necessary and important, but they simply do not understand why they turn out to be dangerous, vicious, incompetent and corrupt. This book can give people valuable insights about how and why governments go wrong. It diagnoses political, economic, social and managerial perverse and...
Every day the newspapers and TV detail new government pathologies: stolen elections, violence against citizens, official murders, destruction of villa...
Perhaps the most difficult thing that human beings are called upon collectively to do is to run a government. Why do so many fail?
There are 196 countries in the world, about 150 of them significant. At least 105 of them, briefly summarized here, are in deep trouble. “Deep trouble” is defined by wars, insurrections, active internal conflict, serious maldistribution of wealth, deep and widespread poverty, rampant corruption, serious lack of social services and public infrastructure, and an excess of plain old bumbling government incompetence, created and exacerbated by the...
Perhaps the most difficult thing that human beings are called upon collectively to do is to run a government. Why do so many fail?
