Flint Emergency Manager
Unaccountable cost-cutting that poisoned a city.
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1 · The idealist case (in its proponents' own framing)
Appoint managers to fix distressed finances.
2 · The realist counter-case
Critics cite loss of democratic accountability.
3 · Predicted vs. measured — with caveats
PA436 emergency management drove the water switch that lead-poisoned Flint (UMich/Milbank).
4 · Liberty check
Efficiency vs. accountability - lethal when unbalanced.
5 · The real tradeoff
Efficiency without accountability is dangerous.
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