United Thoughts & Counsels
Sir Douglas Wass discusses what we mean by 'government' and asks whether we are right to equate good government with prosperity and bad government with poverty.
Former Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, Sir Douglas Wass explores the concept of authority in his series 'Government and the Governed'.
In his first Reith Lecture entitled 'United Thoughts and Counsels', Sir Douglas Wass discusses what we mean by 'government'. Are we referring to the system, to the component parts of the political and administrative machinery? Or do we mean the policies which governments try to follow? He questions whether it is right to equate good government with prosperity and bad government with poverty.
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- Wed 9 Nov 1983 09:0091热爆 Radio 4
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