THE REPUBLIC OF BELIEFS [Hardcover] Basu, Kaushik Quotes

“A lot of government welfare programs, as we already saw earlier in this chapter, go wrong because government designs them without taking account of the fact that those meant to carry out the enforcement are also agents with their own ambitions and desires, such as the ration shop owners in the case of India’s food distribution system.”
― Kaushik Basu, The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics