To the conference this morning. Held under the under the auspice of common good and columbias center on and society. Nearby is philip howard, founder of common good and a senior fellow of the center. So were linked together. Hes a principal organizer of this conference with its theme reempower human Agency Agency as economists come to recognize for work to be meaningful, it has to working people some degree of. Not the mechanical work of in neoclassical economics. Without that the workers suffer, as Richard Sennett argued in his book of some years ago, the culture of the new capitalism. Philip howard has been making another point, one yet not absorbed, i think, by economists. The absence of human agency into bureaucracies prevents them. The bureaucracies from generous getting the services needed by the public. Here it is in the case of sennett, it was the workers that were suffering here. Its the consumers and producers who are suffering because theyre not getting good service. As phil