Paul Krugman's column this morning urges chides the Obama administration for their apparent willingness to "let a good crisis go to waste" and reminds me of the excellent New Yorker piece I read last week. It is no more a brief history of universal health care in the UK as it is a lesson in "path dependence", the idea that how you achieve a goal has to consider where you are starting from - or it won't work. Or something like that? Maybe I need some more coffee and get back to real work rather than trying to be an amateur social scientist...but this stuff is pretty important and interesting to me.
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