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Why is Government a Monopoly?

Can more competition help government services improve?
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We’ve entrusted about half of our money to an institution that is not good at managing money – the government. From this observation, Tim Draper, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurveston, crafts an argument that more competition can help government services improve.

Draper delivered these remarks in a talk entitled “How Can We Fix Our Monopoly Governments” at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, MA.

Watch the video here. 

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