David Brin has also condemned the tax rules in the US in particular - being an American physicist and author, his focus is there - that maneuvered society into this "just in time" framework. More than once over the years, both in his blogging and in convention appearances such as once that I attended in person in Montréal at CON-CEPT.
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From 2008 in particular:
http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/justintimeeconomics.html