Boston Review: What’s Wrong With Technocracy?

This is a must-read essay on the dangers of Technocracy: “Democratic theory points to two lines of normative criticism, an argument from power and an argument from knowledge. Together they indicate that technocracy has severe shortcomings as both a political model and an epistemic one.”  Nothing has changed since 1933. ⁃ TN EditorThe word “technocracy” has been around for a century, but as a term of political derision it has flourished since the global financia