Harvard’s Edward Glaeser in the New York Times: “Clean Water First: Economic Planning in India”
I have a moderate, and only somewhat facetious, libertarian progressive proposal. Unless a government manages to provide clean water to its poorest citizens, it should refrain from any new barrier to international trade, complex nationalization scheme or draconian zoning laws.
Excellent advice.
Seriously, what’s the point in a “government” if it can’t facilitate access to drinking water for a majority of the population?
The entire Indian Parliament should pass a two line resolution: “We failed in all our endeavours. We own collective responsibility and resign.”
That would be a truly Gandhian move.