May be cynical, but I increasingly feel that saying that the government, or one of its agencies, "does something" is nonsensical. We have a government, and things come out of it. But at this stage they seem more like emergent properties or epiphenomena than deliberate actions
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If you operate under the assumption that most agencies’ implicit goal is increasing budget and most officials’ implicit goal is maximizing for career then most mysteries about government function seem sharply less mysterious.
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How could incentives change for both agencies and officials in these positions?
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I mean if you had a magic wand you could imagine saying on February 1st: “$AGENCY if US has non-Wuhan experience the X0k of you split a trillion dollar bonus pool. Your budget is another $1T. See attachment. Get. It. Done.” We, on revealed preferences, do not want that wand.
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