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Mon 07 Jul 2009Politics abdicating responsibility to experts
Consideration of the choices we face and the allocation of resources shouldn’t be outsourced by politicians
COLM McCARTHY and Peter Löscher have probably never met. Both made headlines in their respective countries last week for doing their jobs and both are worryingly symptomatic of a largely unacknowledged flaw in how our societies make decisions. Our Minister for Finance tasked Colm McCarthy with drawing up a list of potential savings in Irish public expenditure. Peter Löscher is the chief executive of Siemens.
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