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Answering that should be a simple, technocratic cost-benefit calculation.
The design task in monetary policy is not to construct rules but, instead, to establish authorities with sensible objectives, values, and technocratic competence.
To be sure, the EU’s technocratic focus on structural reforms is having some effect in the region.
The Eastern Partnership is a typical long-term EU technocratic instrument.
But its most damaging deficit is to be found in governance, as is true of China, where the Bo Xilai scandal has exposed the pathological underside of China’s vaunted technocratic leadership.
No matter how much central banks may wish to present the level of inflation as a mere technocratic decision, it is ultimately a social choice.
But a country’s long-term inflation rate is still the outcome of political choices not technocratic decisions.
In Greece and Italy, technocratic governments have taken over from failing politicians.
By the end of 2015, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk had made remarkable progress in sorting out the country’s finances, but only in the areas where he and his technocratic reformers were in charge.
But they are often underfunded and ill equipped to assess the likely consequences of mergers, and to make valid technocratic arguments against them.
They can build on this experience to articulate a new global narrative that emphasizes the real economy over finance, policy diversity over harmonization, national policy space over external constraints, and social inclusion over technocratic elitism.
The founding fathers of what is now the EU were well aware of the long-term strategic potential of what many at the time regarded as an inconsequential technocratic measure.
Technocratic debates about how to achieve the greatest good for the most people could proceed without the baggage of deranged ideologies.
Furthermore, it should rid itself of its technocratic surveillance apparatus, which lacks both legitimacy and effectiveness.
In May 2016, Putin asked three expert groups to recommend economic-reform programs: a liberal group led by former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin; a technocratic group led by Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin; and the more statist Stolypin Club led by Putin’s business ombudsman Boris Titov.
Finally, technocratic committees must never supplant societal or personal responsibility for sensitive issues involving life and death; ethical obligations cannot be offloaded so easily.
Moreover, the technocratic elements of government must often be balanced against democratic accountability.
With an election looming in Italy, the country’s technocratic interim administration will return the reins of power to a democratically elected government.
The budget represents the victory of Italy’s two deputy prime ministers – M5S’s Luigi Di Maio and the League’s Matteo Salvini – over the country’s independent, technocratic finance minister, Giovanni Tria, who had presented a more conservative proposal.
By contrast, in countries like Sweden and South Korea, technocratic fiscal-transfer programs have ensured that the bottom 20% of earners maintain a disposable income that keeps pace with inflation, and therefore enables them to continue to participate economically.
Britain’s once-vaunted civil service has also atrophied since the 1970s, and technocratic leaders would have seen immediately that Europe’s inhumane and counterproductive post-crisis austerity policies could not create jobs, raise incomes, generate taxes, or boost consumption.
Inspiring and reassuring voters is a political challenge, not a technocratic one.
Yet the tough decisions that central banks must make in such circumstances – preventing destabilizing runs versus encouraging moral hazard – are simultaneously technocratic and political.
This is not a technocratic issue, but a profoundly political and democratic one.
It may well be time for another technocratic push: a Fiscal Stabilization Board that would take its place beside the Federal Reserve Board.
At least as I read the history, by 1829, Western Europe’s technocratic economists had figured out why these periodic grand mal economic seizures occurred.
And so they continue the search for a technocratic fix to a problem crying out for a philosophically astute political solution.
And, given his abysmal popularity ratings, he may decide to play the wild card, embrace a euro-skeptic and anti-government stance, and try to bring down Prime Minister Mario Monti’s technocratic administration.
In particular, whether Italy will be able to move beyond technocratic politics to a “normal” government remains the outstanding question both at home and for the other eurozone member states.
The practice of presenting technocratic faits accomplis to national parliaments will only breed deeper resentments.
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