Philip K. Howard

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Philip K. Howard is a lawyer, author, and chair of Common Good (www.commongood.org), a nonpartisan organization aimed at replacing red tape with human responsibility. His books include the bestselling The Death of Common Sense (1995) and Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions (2023). He grew up in Kentucky and lives in New York City.

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Books by Philip K. Howard

Burning Money

How Public Employee Unions Made Government Unmanageable

By Philip K. Howard

What happens when managers no longer have the authority to manage? When managers can’t terminate an employee who is inept? When they can’t assign the best employees to a hard task? Or when they can’t consolidate near-empty facilities? Any business would soon fail.

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