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Alternate link: https://archive.is/5RcUw https://archive.is/5RcUw I have been interested for a while in the phenomenon of why some countries are led by enginee
by supernova87a 6y ago
Alternate link: https://archive.is/5RcUw https://archive.is/5RcUw
I have been interested for a while in the phenomenon of why some countries are led by engineers, and some by lawyers, and whether it really makes any difference. Perhaps it isn't so much a determining input function, but a reflection of whether a country's needs are material/get-us-out-of-technological-poverty, versus established-wealth/manage-our-conflicting-interests in its evolutionary stage?
Although as some people note, the US has been generally lawyer-led since the beginning.
- rkagerer 6y agoWhat countries are "led by engineers"?
- mytailorisrich 6y agoYou could say that China is (I think that's what supernova87a is implying). Many of the top people studied science and engineering. A quick search: Xi Jinping studied chemical engineering, Li Kejiang, studied Law and Economics, Hu Jintao studied water engineering, Wen Jiabao studied geomechanics. So that's 3 out of 4 of the top leadership of the last 15 years. Before that, Jiang Zemin was an electrical engineering graduate, which means that all leaders in the last 30 years (i.e. since Deng Xiaoping) have had an engineering background. This is probably influenced by the political environment. There is no doubt that this has an impact on policy.