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Re: What could have been done differently?
From: Alex Bligh <alex () alex org uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:12:12 -0000
--On 28 January 2003 10:42 -0600 Andy Putnins <putnins () lett com> wrote:
How does one find a "clueful" person to hire? Can you recognize one by their hat or badge of office? Is there a guild to which they all belong? If one wants to get a "clue", how does one find a master to join as an apprentice?
In the long term one might presume market forces would provide better answers than speculation & ...
Society requires that some kinds of engineers be licensed
... economic theory suggests that licensing etc. is only a good idea when the externalities of failure cases exceed the benefits of licensing by more than the costs of its imposition (including barriers to entry etc.). I do not think we have come to the point where this has been demonstrated yet. Note licensing does not have a 100% success record in protecting against failure (viz. Andersen).
This is therefore a request for all of those who possess this "clue" to write down their wisdom and share it with the rest of us, so we can
This industry has been pretty good at that, despite recent economic circumstances militating against it. No argument there. Alex Bligh
Current thread:
- What could have been done differently? Sean Donelan (Jan 28)
- Re: What could have been done differently? Alex Bligh (Jan 28)
- Re: What could have been done differently? Andy Putnins (Jan 28)
- Re: What could have been done differently? Alex Bligh (Jan 28)
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- Re: What could have been done differently? Andy Putnins (Jan 28)
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- Re: What could have been done differently? E.B. Dreger (Jan 28)
- Re: What could have been done differently? Eliot Lear (Jan 28)
- Re: What could have been done differently? Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Jan 28)
- Re: What could have been done differently? Ted Fischer (Jan 28)
- Re: What could have been done differently? bdragon (Jan 29)
- Re: What could have been done differently? David Howe (Jan 30)
- Re: What could have been done differently? Scott Francis (Jan 29)
- Re: What could have been done differently? Leo Bicknell (Jan 28)
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- Re: What could have been done differently? Alex Bligh (Jan 28)