Who’s Best? Who’s Brightest? - The Conversation Blog - NYTimes.com: "David Brooks: Gail, the death of Robert McNamara has me thinking about ruling classes. On the one hand there was the Best and the Brightest ruling class of which McNamara was a part. These were men (I guess they were all men) educated at the high water mark of technocratic self-confidence.
They believed they had mastered the knowledge required to make a society function. Through macroeconomics they would regulate economic growth. Through technocratic planning they would spur development in the post-colonial world. Through urban redevelopment they would eliminate slums. Through the application of logic and technology they would defeat the Soviet Union.
Didn’t work out so well."
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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