Re:Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan
by bd on Saturday January 03, 2009 @10:30PM
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Well, I have zero illusions about top dogs that got their positions by political means/connections.
My whole point was about low ranking civil servants that do the bulk of the nitty-gritty administration work and that all must pass through a highly selective competitive exams (1 in 29 applicants [1] cf. Harvard's 1 in 14 [2]).
And for these people, from my limited anecdotal evidence I got impression that they are indeed efficient, at least for bureaucracy standards.
My whole point was about low ranking civil servants that do the bulk of the nitty-gritty administration work and that all must pass through a highly selective competitive exams (1 in 29 applicants [1] cf. Harvard's 1 in 14 [2]).
And for these people, from my limited anecdotal evidence I got impression that they are indeed efficient, at least for bureaucracy standards.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPSO
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard#Admissions