Should we revise the Constitution to require the Prime Minister to hold an economics degree?
Let's include premiers in this too.
Let's include premiers in this too.
Should we revise the Constitution to require the Prime Minister to hold an economics
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Get real...
Some of the richest CEO’s are high school dropouts
https://chiefexecutive.net/for-these-ceos-college-degree-not-a-prerequisite-for-success/
Some of the richest CEO’s are high school dropouts
https://chiefexecutive.net/for-these-ceos-college-degree-not-a-prerequisite-for-success/
Should we write into the Constitution that the Finance Minister be required to have a part-time drama teaching certificate?
Let’s see your proof of your basic knowledge of economics
Flew right over his head..
He would also need many more degrees as well. By the time he/she was done getting the required degrees he would be 95.
There was a Asimov or Heinlein story about this. They required a president to be competent in all relevant fields. But the knowledge required grew too fast and they found that no 1 human could pass the test and therefore be president. I forget the resolution but it involved a team of helpers and computers helping the designated victim cheat his way in to prevent a constitutional crisis.
There was a Asimov or Heinlein story about this. They required a president to be competent in all relevant fields. But the knowledge required grew too fast and they found that no 1 human could pass the test and therefore be president. I forget the resolution but it involved a team of helpers and computers helping the designated victim cheat his way in to prevent a constitutional crisis.
I don't have an economics degree, but I'm not running for Prime Minister either. That said, I've read on the subject none-the-less and so understand the basic effects of price floors (such as the minimum wage) and price ceilings (such as rent controls) and their impact on supply and demand and the equilibrium price of goods. That's economics 101.
Let's take another example. In WWII, the government, experiencing shortages of workers in the arms industry, imposed a minimum legal price at which a car could be sold (a price floor) precisely to discourage the demand for cars, force workers out of the car industry, and so liberate workers for the armaments industry. Interestingly, they raised the price not to benefit workers but in fact to push them out of that industry. They understood basic economic principles. Now here we have Wynne raising the minimum wage to supposedly benefit workers. Seriously?
On the same principle, I'd support raising the minimum wage in any business that sells alcohol or tobacco or gambling products to 20.00/hours, not because it would benefit the worker, but rather for the same reason that imposing a price floor on cars discourages people from buying them. In other words, I'd want to push them out of the industry. But again, that's just basic economics and nothing fancy.
A simple master's degree in economics maybe with the equivalent of a Rhodes scholarship would not be too much to ask for the position of Prime Minister.
But an important one. Remember, the Prime Minister is not the entire cabinet. We could require that the Finance Minister possess an equivalent economics degree and that other members of cabinet also possess equivalent qualifications pertinent to their cabinet role even if they must be chosen from outside of Parliament.
It won't fly. All the PM needs is dreamy hair and all the idiots will vote for him. And good luck amending the constitution for anything.
Minister's don't actually do that much.
This is why we are supposed to have a sort of professional and neutral civil service.
Maybe a prerequisite for Finance Minister should be an economics degree!
That's the first thing that came to my mind.
That's the first thing that came to my mind.
We've had one Economics grad as a PM and all of the rest were Lawyers except for one Engineer and the current ... Drama ... teacher. (Yikes!)
The PM and Premiers don not necessarily require those academic qualifications, however, the advisory group(s) that they surround themselves with need this knowledge.
Where the PM/Premier has the option relates to the choice of advisor and their general direction that they want to go.
In the end, the PM doesn't craft the actual policy themselves.
Possessing the highly valuable skill as snowboard instructor is also a must for any leader of a nation.
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
Kaiser Wilhelm
Julius Caesar
Justin Trudeau
.... All highly accomplished snowboard instructors
Fact
No. The only thing they should need for the job is votes. If people choose to elect people with an economics degree, great. If not, oh well.
Yeah that’s not happening any time soon. No government of any party wants to touch it and if they did the odds of a successful change are slim.
Yeah that’s not happening any time soon. No government of any party wants to touch it and if they did the odds of a successful change are slim.
