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The Jordan Harbinger Show

795: Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook Part Two

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Jordan Harbinger

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4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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NYU's Alastair Smith joins us to discuss The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics. Hear part two of two here!

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2:59.6

have an apartment one already go back and listen to it but here's part two with allister Smith why is it that autocratic countries they always have water you can't drink or no water and the electrical grid goes out there's a blackout there's a brown out the roads are not paved what's going on here what is this public goods problem that seems to be so prevalent if you're a dictator you want to provide public goods to the extent that it makes the workers

3:28.6

productive enough but you know putting in water systems is very expensive suit proper sewage proper water distributions expensive particularly the sort of sewage that's particularly that because you have to gravity feeds and everything so these are expensive things to do and if the people that

3:45.6

are benefit from this aren't supporting you and a repose to you then you're just wasting your money you could have kept that money and given it to your cromies so often these projects aren't done and often the typical way you know some countries I'm thinking

4:00.6

made Lee Middle East and oil rich countries they just have huge amounts of sovereign wealth which they can actually just reallocate to supporters but the more general way that you reward

4:11.6

you can get a lot of money in a small corrupt system is you just allow your cromies of the ones you licensed to actually go around and extract bribes you make money through corruption and you know what better way to make money than through

4:25.6

public works projects I see built to low standards your friends get the beds we take them away so the places are corrupt right okay so this makes sense right we want roads and we want telephone and we want a little bit of maybe water

4:39.6

and there but also I'm giving it to my cronies so that guy's skimming off the top so it's built poorly and it's not really complete to begin with and I would imagine the same infrastructure that's good for the economy roads telephone's Internet they all increase productivity but wouldn't they also I mean that's how people we hear about a Twitter being a thing and Iran for the protest we don't want them to be able to communicate too well or drive to the capital in their cars when they're unhappy right so we are kind of want like just enough that there's a benefit for you

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