A reassessment of Public Policy

I have run up the somewhat exhausting habit of expecting the worst from every single encounter with the Public Policy course. Up until today, all of my lectures and most of conversations had in tutorial sessions have been greatly biased towards socialism, as seen in earlier posts. 

The current unbeatable record of time before blaming Thatcher and/or NeoLiberalism for most evils in the modern history of UK stays at 4 minutes. A standard has emerged for how those lectures took place - until today!

The first series of lectures in any particular field is always interesting, because it says something about the topics and an introduction to how the lecturer approach them. Today, as any other day, I didn't expect a record but no more than 15-20 minute before Thatcher ruined the show. To my surprise the entire 50 minute lecture elapsed without any charge against neither the former president nor her political convictions.

Instead the lecturer showed us fascinating numbers on British Public Expenditure - astonishing numbers that I'll go into at some future point. And I only percieved one tiny violation of math, and I even suspect it was unconciously done in passing. That is, my post on Social Scientists to learn math was uncalled for.

Thatcher-relating topics was mainly reduced to displaying the following quote, as a bridge to tomorrow's topics. As true back then as it is today. Enjoy!

"The Problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" - Margaret Thatcher

Maybe I judged the entire staff of Public Policy lecturers at Glasgow a bit too severe. After all, some of them need to justify their salaries! We'll see about that tomorrow.