Legal Commentary

Solutions Finding Their Problem

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

If we can get Congress and the electorate into a mind-set that says what the economy needs is stimulus of the electroshock variety, then all sorts of things become possible.

Here’s one idea that has been floating around for years, whose time has come: Cash for clunkers.

The garbage can model of public choice decision-making describes organizations as places with ‘solutions looking for problems’. I expect we might see lots of this sort of thing — and that’s on the whole a good thing.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).