Re: Re: Re: Re: Krugman attacks the EPI! (fwd)

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:11 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
> I am somewhat confused by the term technocrat. Is it used to mean one who
> uses power, or representative of a adherent of Technocracy's technological
> social design.

yeah, but nowadays, as I understand it, a "technocrat" is simply an
"expert" who makes technical decisions for governments or corporations.
Someone who's technocratic is someone who thinks that experts are the ones
who should be making such decisions. It's not old-fashioned technocracy,
since in the end it's the capitalists who rule under capitalism and create
the "mission statements" that guide the technocrats.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine