In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
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I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.
The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.
Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.
Economics has become as riveting as politics.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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