The Technocratic Redistributionist Has A Microsimulation

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Inequality Is An Engineering Problem With A Moral Handrail

Inequality Is An Engineering Problem With A Moral Handrail

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the political far frontier.

The Technocratic Redistributionist believes inequality can be solved by an elegant algorithm and three economists from Imperial. Our editor Alan Nafzger, of The London Prat, has compiled the following field notes on the Technocratic Redistributionist mindset, with help from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Resolution Foundation.

Twenty Things You Learn Watching Technocratic Redistributionist In The Wild

  1. Has a soft spot for randomised controlled trials that borders on parental.
  2. Refers to evidence-based policy the way priests refer to scripture.
  3. Believes any social problem can be solved by a properly weighted index.
  4. Has explained universal basic income at a stag do.
  5. Considers a pilot programme a small mercy.
  6. Refers to the Resolution Foundation in casual conversation.
  7. Has a folder of think tank reports labelled Better Country.
  8. Believes any decent welfare reform comes with a logframe.
  9. Considers a behavioural insights team an ethical asset.
  10. Refers to nudges with the wary respect of a man who has read both sides.
  11. Has explained, on a first date, the difference between mean and median.
  12. Believes any tax reform deserves a microsimulation.
  13. Refers to data the way fishermen refer to nets.
  14. Has founded, in his head, the Office for Fairness with a small budget.
  15. Considers a quasi-experiment a love story.
  16. Has explained, slowly, that universalism scales better than means tests.
  17. Treats the IFS the way some men treat football clubs.
  18. Believes any minister without a chief economist is a hazard.
  19. Refers to the deficit as a constraint, not a personality.
  20. Maintains that redistribution is, in the end, an engineering problem with a moral handrail.

Closing Note From The Editor

If any of the above sounds familiar, congratulations, you have either been to a polytechnic seminar or a dinner party in Hampstead. For more in this series read further dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see Private Eye.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

SOURCE: The London Prat