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To: LindyBill who wrote (2456)	6/21/2003 12:58:05 AM
From: D. Long	of 793914

I'd like to see the figures for government expenditures on education, matched against that downward slope in performance. A post by Gina stirred up Gammon's Law from my memory. It would be interesting to see the correllation. Message 19050744 To:Gina Vener who wrote (5606) From: D. Long Saturday, Jun 21, 2003 12:35 AM Respond to of 5616 That's the fundamental problem with government ventures. Private enterprises are either efficient, or go bankrupt. Government enterprises always need "just a little more money" to be perfect. What's more, the more money poured into a government venture, the less efficient it tends to become. A British doctor formulated an economic principle after studying the NHS, called Gammon's Law or the Theory of Bureaucratic Displacement. In "a bureaucratic system ... increase in expenditure will be matched by fall in production.... Such systems will act rather like 'black holes,' in the economic universe, simultaneously sucking in resources, and shrinking in terms of 'emitted production.'" I don't think it is a stretch to say that it applies to education as well. Derek

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