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John Robson: Wisdom Versus Cunning in Public Affairs

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John Robson: Wisdom Versus Cunning in Public Affairs
A polling station in Vaughan, Ont., during the federal election on Oct. 19, 2015. The Canadian Press/Peter Power
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Just because I’ve spent a lifetime watching politics, don’t think I like it. The mechanics bore and appall me, and I study policy as a doctor studies disease, with books by Hitler and Stalin on my shelves, and Keynes as well as Friedman. But speaking of Friedman, it’s the books that say incentives matter that contain medicine, not infection.

John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”