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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: Excerpt: /363/ Outsourcing the State
Description:
On the politics of consultancy
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The past 40 years have seen a whole range of things the state used to do itself outsourced to third parties. Now there is a turn against these practices. But can the state actually get stuff done, or is it doomed for its prior reliance on consultants?
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It's not just the left the criticises outsourcing - the right now does too. How do these positions differ? And how are these questions related to another critique – that of 'bullshit jobs'?
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Readings & Links:
In Clover, Laleh Khalili, LRB (attached)
The Big Con —...