Development Undone: Weber, Kafka and the Organisation of Supply-Side Vested Interests

IF 0.4 Q4 ECONOMICS Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics Pub Date : 2020-02-27 DOI:10.1177/0260107919896879
P. Blunt
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Based on primary empirical evidence from six Asian countries at different stages of development, it is argued, first, that at the national point of delivery supply-side development assistance, organisations routinely behave in a manner that is antithetical to development, contradict their stated intentions and the principles of good governance that they claim to uphold (bureaucratic misrepresentation and anomie) and waste resources on technical ‘remedies’ that they know to be ineffective (bureaucratic misdirection); second, that these things are done to serve national and/or personal vested interests on the supply-side; third, that this can lead to internal conflict and alienation in supply-side organisations; fourth, that contrary to conventional wisdom, in many ways, supply-side behaviour mirrors the behaviour of vested interests on the demand-side and that they are mutually reinforcing; fifth, that Kafka’s notion of organisation explains such supply-side and demand-side behaviour much better than Weber’s does and sixth, that the dominance of neoliberal and Weberian thinking in our political and educational institutions and the Kafkaesque nature of development agencies at the national level make it likely that development in the interests of poor people by well-intentioned and well-informed technocrats will continue to be severely curtailed. JEL: F35, F51, F54, F55 O19, O57, P48
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发展Undone:韦伯、卡夫卡与供给侧既得利益组织
基于来自处于不同发展阶段的六个亚洲国家的主要经验证据,有人认为,首先,在国家提供供应方发展援助时,组织的行为通常与发展背道而驰,与他们声明的意图和他们声称坚持的善治原则相矛盾(官僚主义的虚假陈述和失范),并将资源浪费在他们知道无效的技术“补救措施”上(官僚主义的误导);第二,这些事情是为了服务于国家和/或个人在供应方面的既得利益;第三,这可能导致供应方组织内部冲突和异化;第四,与传统观点相反,在许多方面,供应方的行为反映了需求方既得利益者的行为,并且它们是相辅相成的;第五,卡夫卡的组织概念比韦伯的更好地解释了这种供给侧和需求侧的行为。第六,新自由主义和韦伯思想在我们的政治和教育机构中的主导地位,以及国家一级发展机构的卡夫卡式性质,使得善意和知情的技术官僚为穷人的利益而进行的发展很可能会继续受到严重限制。JEL:F35、F51、F54、F55 O19、O57、P48
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