The Unaccountability Machine - Profile Books

[JohnGrant]

I posted a question related to Dan’s book the other day:

Accountability Sinks

Can poorly designed or overly rigid protocols act as “accountability sinks”, shielding decision-makers from responsibility? If so, how can we structure protocols to promote transparency and accountability instead? The Unaccountability Machine has not been published yet, but I’m intrigued by the notion of ‘accountability sinks’: … what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”: a situation in which a human system delegates decision-making to a rule book rather than an identifiable individual. …