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The Gresham’s Law of Public Life: Why Bad Systems Drive Out Good Leaders
Why do modern institutions, from government bureaucracies to architectural firms, seem increasingly incapable of doing really good work?

Nicholas Gruen
Jan 224 min read


Trust and the competition delusion
In our embrace of private competition as a goal, we mostly pass over a prior issue – which is the terms on which that competition takes place. This is undermining trust in a remarkably wide range of institutions in our economic and public life.

Nicholas Gruen
Nov 28, 202521 min read
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