We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency
in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code
word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly,
efficiency is important-it must always be part of the conversation
when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have
important choices to make among competing priorities. Even when the
language of efficiency is used carefully, that language alone is
not enough. Unilingualism will not do. We need to go beyond the
cult of efficiency to talk about accountability. Much of the
democratic debate of the next decade will turn on how
accountability becomes part of our public conversation and whether
it is imposed or negotiated. Janice Gross Stein draws on public
education and universal health care, locally and globally, as
flashpoints in the debate about their efficiency. She argues that
what will define the quality of education from Ontario to India and
the quality of health care from China to Alberta is whether
citizens and governments can negotiate new standards of
accountability. The cult of efficiency will not take us far enough.
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