A great piece of work Arthur thanks. NZ had a similar model and was able to build a lot of infrastructure particularly in the 1960 - 1980's but this has all been privatised and now we are stalling and can't build anything of significance.
I think I'll just get on HS2 up to Leeds. That was built by a 100% government owned agency, HS2 Ltd, so clearly it was able to overcome all its planning and project management issues and get built on time, on budget, and to the full original service plan.
That there's no magic in nationalisation, change to the planning system is desirable for state initiated projects as well, as is capacity building, and therefore the "nationalisation vs abundance" argument is a false dichotomy
A great piece of work Arthur thanks. NZ had a similar model and was able to build a lot of infrastructure particularly in the 1960 - 1980's but this has all been privatised and now we are stalling and can't build anything of significance.
I think I'll just get on HS2 up to Leeds. That was built by a 100% government owned agency, HS2 Ltd, so clearly it was able to overcome all its planning and project management issues and get built on time, on budget, and to the full original service plan.
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Publicly owned projects go over budget. So to privately held ones. I’m not sure what point you are making.
That there's no magic in nationalisation, change to the planning system is desirable for state initiated projects as well, as is capacity building, and therefore the "nationalisation vs abundance" argument is a false dichotomy
Great points. I haven’t claimed nationalisation is opposite to abundance.
The first few paragraphs do look like you are trying to frame it that way
I don’t think they do.
Super interesting