3 ms·

> Also, the purpose of any funding program is complete the moment that a politician steps up to a TV camera to accept credit for creating it. Anything that happ

• PeterisP 7y ago
  It kind of is, management theory (both in business administration/MBA and public administration programs, and IIRC also in political science and certain sociology programs) devotes quite a lot of attention and research to all these issues e.g. the agency problem, governance structures, patterns of organizational politics, incentive (mis)alignments, etc, I recall a bunch of such case studies from my college courses targeted at this, so it is taught to college students - just not to most of them. Perhaps it should be, but it's hard to squeeze everything useful in everyone's study program, and I'm not sure if compressing all these topics in e.g. a single short elective course designed for people majoring in other disciplines can be done reasonably well, it's a complicated topic.