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Did neoliberal economics destroy government’s ability to execute programs? Not so fast…

April 14, 2021 Eric Lofgren 3

You can either look at this as deterministic history that, once upon a time there were really smart people in government who knew how to […]

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Should government be more mission-driven?

April 13, 2021 Eric Lofgren 1

Only when it’s too late, only when we have a pandemic of the scale we have now, do we realize, uh oh, we have to […]

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Public vs. private innovation

January 7, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

I like to break down innovation into experimentation, evaluation, and evolution. I think that government has a disadvantage at all three.

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