Sanjeev Sabhlok
The Spectator Australia
2022-05-17 19:36:00

Third World v. First World: what’s the difference? In a nutshell, the way they make public policy.

For the most part, policy in First World nations is not ideological, but process-oriented. It is required to pass two tests:

• A test of liberty (the government must not interfere in our life without a strong justification).
• A test of reason (the justification so provided must be evidence-based and transparent).

These tests are operationalised through the regime of a cost-benefit analysis (CBA).

Many people are suspicious about CBAs, which they think are created by ‘money-minded’ economists who put a ‘value’ on life – something people believe is an impossibility. And indeed, the life of our family members and our friends, cannot be valued on any known metric.

But when taxpayer money is involved, a calculation of trade-offs becomes inevitable.

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