Luis Garicano and Richard A. Posner: What Our Spies Can Learn From Toyota - WSJ.com

Luis Garicano and Richard A. Posner: What Our Spies Can Learn From Toyota - WSJ.com

We have an unwieldy multiplicity of agencies that operate largely independently. Dysfunctional bureaucratic incentives decree that an attack involving a repetition of a known terrorist procedure is the most damaging politically, so shoes are scanned because a shoe was used in an attempted airplane bombing. Now underwear will be scanned as well. The government seems always to be playing catch-up to the terrorists.