The Benefits of Expertise — and Its Limitations

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing,” philosopher Nicholas Murray Butler once quipped.  While the statement holds some truth, expertise undeniably shapes our modern world. Without specialists, many advancements we take for granted — medical breakthroughs, technological innovations — would not exist….

‘Local Control,’ Fake and Real

A debate is raging over housing policy. Many state lawmakers have proposed overriding local growth controls — land-use regulations on housing, such as restrictive zoning requirements — in order to let the free market solve the housing crunch. For example, starter home acts preempting large minimum lot regulations were proposed in Arizona, Minnesota, Texas, North…

Pocket – The Hindu BusinessLine

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