His MITI piece was so good that the entire world of industrial planning signed a letter denouncing it. The reality is that we didn't need this commission to tell us that Japan Inc. was a failure. Intelligent people could see that even in the 1980s. The reason, I think, that so many experts fell in love with the idea of a planned economy is that they had no choice. It is in the nature of experts.
Artists think the world's problems can be solved with more art.
Surgeons are famous for always wanting to cut. And bureaucrats think they can improve things by imposing a system on the messy world. My apologies for not filing yesterday. But I am going to stick to my three a week policy whenever possible, so please stop threatening me. In the meantime check out all of our stuff on the Iowa caucuses.