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Well, as we gather here in Edinburgh, technocrats appointed by the U.N. and certain governments, with the best intentions, are busying themselves designing a new package of goals, and currently they're doing that through pretty much the same old late-20th-century, top-down, elite, closed process.
As European technocrats have pushed for covert integration to resolve the euro and refugee crises, the populists have struck back even harder.
The UK’s Brexit negotiations have already become a battleground between technocrats and populists, with each side vying for an outcome that will support its narrative.
The appeal of such forces is particularly pronounced in the EU, owing to the popular perception that European integration has weakened national sovereignty and left citizens subject to decision-making by unelected technocrats.
Technocrats can of course reliably make an electricity plant work better.
These value choices are political choices , which cannot be left to technocrats.
Technocrats can sometimes help avoid Pareto inferior policies, that is, policies that make everyone worse off.
The problem is that many policies advanced by technocrats as if they were Pareto efficient are in fact flawed and make many people--sometimes entire countries--worse off.
Of course, some criticisms of technocratic remedies may be populist posturing, but sometimes they contain insights that ivory-towered (and usually US-trained) technocrats miss.
Developing countries, the technocrats said, should do likewise.
Perhaps the populists are popular because they know something that the technocrats don't.
That means supporting the ongoing effort to form an interim Palestinian government of technocrats, as stipulated in the Qatar agreement.
Compared to the crooks and demagogues who preceded him in office (not long ago, one was filmed stashing millions in cash behind the altar of a local monastery), President Mauricio Macri and his team of well-trained technocrats are a massive improvement.
In other appointments, Trump has preferred generals and businesspeople to technocrats.
Moreover, there is nothing in economic theory that should have made economic technocrats think that Anglo-American institutions of corporate governance or "flexible labor markets," to pick just two examples, produce unambiguously superior economic performance when compared to German-style insider control or institutionalized labor markets.
Similarly, the technocrats at the Bank of Japan surely realize that they could manage the economy far more effectively if they swore off anachronistic exchange-rate intervention techniques and switched whole-heartedly to modern interest-rate targeting rules such as those used by the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.
But, if independent technocrats are allowed to determine long-term policy and set objectives that cannot be influenced by democratic majorities, democracy itself is in serious jeopardy.
They would never follow unknown technocrats.
Does this undermine central-bank independence by amounting to a de facto subordination of unelected technocrats to elected politicians?
We can also rehabilitate the technocrats who served under Saddam, so that they, too, have a chance to serve their country.
Moreover, it would require entrusting economic policy to international technocrats, insulated as they are from the push and pull of politics – a stance that severely circumscribes democracy and political accountability.
The government’s few technocrats, including the deputy prime minister and the finance minister, are holdovers from the previous coup government of 2006-2007, and they complain that they lack authority.
Decisions of this nature cannot be left to a committee of technocrats or a conclave of ministers.
While the credibility of his government of technocrats rests on impartiality, all policy measures are inherently political to the extent that they reflect a vision about the organization of society.
In the eurozone, financial crises have forced out two governments, replacing elected representative with appointed technocrats charged with restoring order.
Moreover, ordinary Russians are becoming allergic to liberal democracy, because liberal technocrats have consistently served as window dressing for an illiberal Kremlin regime.
Thus, the British Foreign Office is pilloried for being sympathetic to European Union technocrats; and US intelligence services are accused of leaking information to a press corps that has become “the enemy of the people.”
The crisis has lasted so long that most governing parties (and technocrats) have been found wanting.
It is difficult to justify the delegation of the inflation target itself to unelected technocrats.
But they should recognize that economists’ and other technocrats’ policy preferences rarely endow policies with sufficient democratic legitimacy on their own.
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