Problems are exacerbated when you let accountants run anything. My experience in business has been that if an accountant takes over the running of a company, it's doomed to failure. I suspect that the same is true of the country. Accountants too often have no idea about broad economics or, more importantly, about the value of people. John Maynard Keynes said as much. So did the brilliant economic historian, Tony Judt, in his last book, 'Ill Fares the Land'.