On May 6, 9:47*am, Mike Ash wrote:

If you want to see how it works in a more modern setting, take a look at
China. As pointed out by James Nicoll on his blog (but I can't find a
reference right now), the vast majority of the central ruling committee
of China has PhDs in various hard sciences.

As for whether that means it's good or bad, I think that would depend on
individual interpretation.

The form of government in China, I would think, is clearly bad, but
I'm not sure the number of PhDs on the Central Committee has anything
to do with it.

John Savard