GOVERNANCE. Mariana Mazzucato's forthcoming book is about how big consultancies that governments rely on do not have the expertise they claim. I'm surprised that this is news to anyone. But contract states are also not good at procurement and often ask for mega-projects with unrealistic, conflicting, and vague specifications. Early indications suggest Mazzucato & Collington think those two problems are related; hard to buy something you hardly understand.

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However, some of the coastal counties in Maine as well as some counties around Columbus seem to have fairly high levels of agriculture.

The rural counties in Ohio closer to West Virginia also appear to be less agrarian than those counties that are closer to Indiana.

On the whole, there does not appear to be a clear pattern that indicates that most rural areas are those most heavily engaged in agriculture.

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GOVERNANCE. New book about how government experts self-sabotage in Australia. Doesn’t seem to delve too deeply into the systemic pathologies undermining advice-giving. But nice to see Giandomenico Majone‘s classic Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion (1989) getting a re-airing. Also free.

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