Economagination

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If we can put the same drive and imagination into reinvigorating the
Economy as we have National Grid and new green energy provision, would
this not transform our prospects?

We need to think up new ways of working, living - and importantly
investing.

Some 10 years ago, I proposed lobbied for and wrote a "Blueprint for
an Object-oriented Economy", but over the years since, I have come to
believe in less organizational framework and more individuality; in
less planning and more private and individual enterprise.
Once people get into organized powerful groups to control regional
development funding, they start to act to preserve their structures to
the extent that they defies common sense.
In the UK we have had for example the 'public-private partnerships',
culminating in Quangos (quasi non-governmental organisations) which
have had, speaking with hindsight, a negative stifling effect on
regional economic growth, with the advance of the public sector's
demand for funding drowning-out inventors and new enterprises. In our
region, over 50% of all the jobs are provided by the State.