It rather hurts me to hear that Mario Draghi, the Taciturn, has built up his government team “far from the interferences of the parties”, that “politicians are, by their very nature, incompetent”. As a matter of fact, politics as nuisance.
Oggi si tende a presentare la competenza come una qualità assoluta, sciolta da correlazioni con il suo intorno, laddove invece essa si qualifica solo in funzione del raggiungimento di un obiettivo.
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This essay ("John Kenneth Galbraith was an intellectual celebrity 50 years ago—and it would be a mistake to ignore him today") has been published by FP on January 2021 Here are reproduced parts of the essay.