also high on the list? I grew up in Pittsburgh and went to college at Cornell, so I can answer for both. The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston. Rich people don't want to live in Pittsburgh or Ithaca. So while there are plenty of hackers who could start startups, there's no one to invest in them. Not Bureaucrats Do you really need the rich people? Wouldn't it work to have the government invest in the nerds? No, it would not. Startup investors are a distinct type of rich people. They tend to have a lot of experience themselves in the technology business. This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money. And the fact that they have a personal stake in the outcome makes them really pay attention.
instance, even if one was fundamentally anti-NPM. In addition, the field of PA as a scholarly discipline is quite small, and the pyramid of scientific prestige is very narrow at the top, so a few very senior scholars and a few key publications really can make a difference. A third reason is that there were many PA scholars and practicioners from pre-NPM times who had never liked the concept, be it for good or such in the case of Continental lawyers and old-fashioned bureaucrats for bad reasons. They were only too willing to see it go, and they jumped at possibilities, like the Neo-Weberian State (NWS), to be modern yet not to give up their organizational principles. (This is why it is so important to see the post-post-NPM quality of the NWS, which is neither pre-NPM nor post-NPM in the sense of anti-NPM, and to take the "neo"-elements seriously.) Before this background, the plain and empiricially observable fact that NPM simply
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