Men ja, det ville nok have været en fordel for Holm at have haft et abonnement på Cato Briefing.

Jeg vil dog tilføje en ting, som Norberg også pointerer, vedrørende implementeringen af liberal politik i kølvandet på kriser - ofte er der tale om decideret top-down planlægning fra IMFs side, som William Easterly også kritiserer i sin bog “The White Mans Burden” fra 2006, og det er måske en af grundene til at det ikke altid virker. Men det er bare svært at se hvordan at det kan være specielt liberalt at desígne et lands institutioner fra toppen og ned…

Mvh

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9384

Johan Norberg slagter Klein nådesløst.

Whether secondary education actually add any value to individual development (at least economic) is an even more complicated question - I know that primary education is a strong statistical determinant of economic wealth and growth, but I am not sure about secondary education. Given the fact that much of the increase in inequality that has occured over the previous two decades, is by many attributed to the advance of the knowledge economy and the increased demand for skilled labor that this entails, it sounds plausible that it does (on the other hand, the law of diminishing/declining marginal utility of goods probably operates with regard to education as well). Then again, I have always been somewhat sceptical about the extolling of education as the putative panacea for all social and economic ailments (which is an impression you commonly get from politicians). Anyways, i’ll check out the Wolf book - thanks for the tip.

If you want to know more about the UK educational system, I can highly recommend Alison Wolf’s ‘Does education matter’? She basically thinks a lot of the secondary education that takes place in GB (and to some degree also in the rest of the West), especially a lot of that which is funded by the government, is pretty much superfluous, adding very little to the social capital of the inhabitants. Her approach is data driven and she makes a good point.

Mvh