Nothing works

One of the persistent themes in the book (which I am engaging with closely at the moment as I prepare the fourth edition) is to probe the meanings of efficiency to argue that these are often ethically deficient, and beyond that to say that it is not just that they are deficient and yet ‘work’, but that often they simply don’t work. With that in mind, I have been thinking about a series of things which have happened in the last week or so. These include: · I arrived in good time at a train s