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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The market economy will not grow in a socially desirable direction on its own. Rather—as my book The Entrepreneurial State stressed over 10 years ago—a dynamic, capable public sector with a decentralized network of public institutions across the innovation chain can shape the direction of growth toward more socially desirable outcomes. The public sector needs to develop competent and well-equipped national, regional, and local governments that can work together to deploy tools like outcomes-oriented procurement and strategic public investment. Unfortunately, the new government initiative so-called the Department of Government Efficiency appears to be a regurgitation of new public management theory—the idea that private-sector management practices should be applied to the delivery of public services, based on the assumption that the government’s attempts to make things better for people could actually make them worse. This contradicts what we need to do: invest in our public sector to develop the dynamic capabilities necessary to foster innovation-led sustainable and inclusive economic growth. And ultimately, this is not about the state doing everything itself—it is also about having the capacity required to work well with others, including private sector actors."

rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/mi

Roosevelt Institute · The Role of a Mission-Oriented Framework for a Progressive Economy - Roosevelt InstituteThe time to put forward ideas for how to build innovative, sustainable economies is now. If we get this wrong, we are only setting the groundwork for reactionary populism to rise further. Rethinking the state is a key piece of the broader vision for an inclusive, outcomes-oriented mission economy. This project goes beyond just industrial strategy. It requires a different relationship between public and private actors and between capital and labor, and recognizes that growth has not only a rate but a direction. What it requires is a new narrative to describe what the state is for: to shape markets rather than just fix them. 
#PublicInvestment#State#EntrepreneurialState
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Nonilex

#Religious leaders, politicians & #PublicPolicy experts predict an explosion of new, #government-funded #religious #schools if #SCOTUS sides w/ #Catholic church ofcls in #Oklahoma in the case. Becoming a charter school would mean a steady stream of #funding & no need to charge #tuition.

#law #Constitution #ChurchAndState #judiciary #NAR #NewApostolicReformation #education #indoctrination #FederalistSociety #FarRight #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #USpol

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Strypey

"One of the things that weirdly happens with the discourse around AI is; this future promise is increasingly mistaken for existing capability. So when we keep saying let's prepare by reshaping our infrastructure to accommodate AI, we're asking to reshape this infrastructure for a hypothetical future. And that hastens the conditions for that future, regardless of whether it ever arrives."

#ErykSalvaggio, 2025

techpolicy.press/doge-and-the-

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Tech Policy Press · DOGE and the United States of AI | TechPolicy.PressA conversation with Eryk Salvaggio, Rebecca Williams, Emily Tavoulareas, and Matthew Kirschenbaum about the role of AI in government.
#MOLE#AI#PublicPolicy
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The problem is that governments and businesses serve vastly different purposes. If public policymakers start mimicking business founders, they will undermine their own ability to address complex societal challenges.

For startups, the highest priority is rapid iteration, technology-driven disruption, and financial returns for investors. Their success often hinges on solving a narrowly defined problem with a single product, or within a single organization. Governments, by contrast, must tackle complex, interconnected issues like poverty, public health, and national security. Each challenge calls for collaboration across multiple sectors, and careful long-term planning. The idea of securing short-term gains in any of these areas doesn’t even make sense.

Unlike startups, governments are supposed to uphold legal mandates, ensure the provision of essential services, and enforce equal treatment under the law – more important today than ever. Metrics like market share are irrelevant, because the government has no competitors. Rather than trying to “win,” it should focus on expanding opportunities and promoting the diffusion of best practices. It must be long-term minded, while achieving nimble and flexible structures that can adapt."

project-syndicate.org/commenta

Project Syndicate · Governments Are Not Startups | by Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel - Project SyndicateMariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel explain why ongoing efforts to run the state like a business are doomed to fail.
#Governments#StartUps#PublicPolicy
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The first step may be to finally recognize that “running government like a business” has always been a red herring. The government is not a business — it is the thing that makes business possible. Unregulated markets frequently fail to produce good businesses so long as we define “good” as beneficial to their customers. And unregulated businesses, as we’ve recently been forced to witness, are even worse at producing good government. As the economist Mariana Mazzucato has long argued, the libertarian CEO types now running Washington are willfully ignorant of just how dependent their industries are on the backbone of public services like roads, telecoms, courts and publicly-funded research — services they have enjoyed largely for free since financial liberalization and business tax cuts have allowed them to shelter the vast majority of their profits.

Step two is much harder: articulating some positive idea of an activist government in the marketplace. For Doctorow, as for many others, this begins with “a very aggressive antitrust agenda” aimed at breaking up the monopolies that have become powerful enough to capture — and try to replace — the federal government under Trump. “You cannot have a referee who is weaker than the players on the field,” he told me.

“Anti-government nihilism cannot be countered without a defense of the government’s role in daily life.”

But there are other, more constructive roles the government could play. Doctorow suggested a federal jobs guarantee that would put a meaningful floor on the value of labor. Or a database of publicly funded, patent-free research, which would compel corporations to support interoperability — what Mazzucato has called, in the context of AI, a “decentralized innovation ecosystem that serves the public good.”"

noemamag.com/the-good-society-

NOEMAThe Department Of Good Living | NOEMAOnce upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?
#USA#NewDeal#PublicAdministration
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Julia S.

AN EXPLORATION OF ABLEISM’S IMPACT and a set of thoughtful recommendations for creating a more inclusive society, from entrepreneur/disability activist Tiffany Yu. Wise, insightful, admirably clear, aimed primarily at currently able allies. A MINUS

barnesandnoble.com/w/the-anti-

@bookstodon

Barnes & NobleThe Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World|HardcoverTiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack biases and build an inclusive and accessible world. As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD, and sustaining a permanent arm injury at age nine, Tiffany Yu is well aware...
#book#Books#bookreview
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Mayor David Newman

In Burbank today for League of California Cities’ spring policy meetings and legislative updates. Cal Cities represents most of the state’s 482 cities and is essential in helping shape legislation to better serve Thousand Oaks.

I serve on Cal Cities’ Environmental Quality (EQ) committee, where we voted to take positions on five proposed bills. These are recommendations to the league’s policy committee, where I also serve, and where we will vote on final positions later this year. (1/4)

#calcities#publicpolicy#environment
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joe•iuculano :mastodon:

Via #TheGuardian @ 5:26pm ET on Mar 26, 2025

A #Yale professor who studies #fascism is leaving the #US to work at a #Canadian #university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “#FascistDictatorship”.

#JasonStanley, who wrote the 2018 #book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s #MunkSchool of #GlobalAffairs and #PublicPolicy.

#USpoli #CANpoli

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in CanadaBy Rachel Leingang
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Open Future Foundation

The EU's next Multiannual Financial Framework needs a fresh perspective. As geopolitical and economic challenges mount, we can't afford "business as usual."

In her latest piece for @Tagesspiegel Background, Zuzanna Warso argues that member states should prioritize public infrastructure maintenance and take a more realistic approach to innovation funding.

Click here for the freely available viewpoint (in German): background.tagesspiegel.de/dig

The EU must rethink its public investment, Viewpoints-Zuzanna Warso
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Jan R. Boehnke

“We should’ve moved beyond a world where conservation bodies need to acquire large amounts of land; we should be restoring land through well-crafted #PublicPolicy.”
Andy Wightman in
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m

Very interesting read, especially together with this older piece (2yrs ago) on the other side, how corporate tree-planting in #Scotland risks widening rural inequality
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m

The Guardian · Mystery donor’s £17.5m gift could turn Scottish estate into rewilding showcaseBy Severin Carrell
#Arainneachd#Environment
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ISOC Switzerland Chapter

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#FOSS #OpenInternet #DigitalRights #LiveNow #PublicPolicy #Digitalidentity
#DigitalID

ISOC LIVE NOTICEBOARD · WEBCAST 27 FEB - ISOC Switzerland Public Policy Sessions 2025 - ISOC LIVE NOTICEBOARDOn Thursday, 27 February, 2025 at 15:15-18:00 CET (14:15-17:00 UTC) the Internet Society Switzerland Chapter (ISOC CH) hosts a public event ‘Public Policy Sessions 2025‘ at the Switzerland Innovation Park in Biel/Bienne. PROGRAMME https://www.isoc.ch/events/public-policy-session-2025/ (All times CET = UTC+1) 15:15 Official Welcome Bernie Höneisen – ISOC-CH 15:25 Introduction to ISOC / ISOC-CH Markus Kummer – […]
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