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Technology versus Government: Decentralisation will Depoliticise Life
Author(s) -
Seldon Arthur
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01052.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , emancipation , decentralization , government (linguistics) , eclipse , sociology , political science , political economy , public administration , law , politics , philosophy , astronomy , linguistics , physics
A self‐described ‘Mad, Christian, libertarian economist’, Norman Macrae, veteran Deputy Editor of The Economist, foresees eight‐fold rise in living standards in a generation, a shrivelling of government, impotence of politicians, a burgeoning of entrepreneurship, emancipation from bureaucracy by personal computer‐communication (‘tele‐commuting’), the accelerating eclipse of old by undreamt‐of new industries. Arthur Seldon assesses Macrae's economic vision.