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China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers

China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers. - Freakonomics

WANG: The problem is that they are fundamentally also social engineers that treat society as just a giant math exercise as well, which is why I spend a lot of time thinking about the one-child policy as well as “Zero Covid” — which, the number is right there in the name. It was plodding, it was proceduralist, it was lawyerly, and a lot of this money wasn’t even allocated by the time that voters chucked Joe Biden out of the White House and brought back in Donald Trump. The Freakonomics Radio Network staff includes Alina Kulman, Augusta Chapman, Dalvin Aboagye, Eleanor Osborne, Elsa Hernandez, Gabriel Roth, Greg Rippin, Jeremy Johnston, Morgan Levey, Sarah Lilley, and Theo Jacobs.

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