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Government spending and economic growth with Dr Dan Mitchell
Economics Explored
English - January 15, 2020 14:05 - 35 minutes - 28.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBusiness business economics finance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Here’s a link to Dr Dan Mitchell’s International Liberty blog.
Use these timestamps to jump right to the highlights:
1:40 – Gene mentions the Optimal size of government in Australia paper co-authored by Griffith University Professor Tony Makin and Economic Society of Australia (QLD) President Julian Pearce3:00 – Dan notes empirical literature suggests optimal size of government around 20% of GDP10:20 – discussion of OECD research on government spending and growth (see this OECD working paper and Dan’s blog plot)17:10 – Dan notes the 1930s and 1960s were the two periods where the size of government really stepped up20:05 – how a value-added tax (VAT) promotes growth of government30:55 – discussion of Adam Smith’s dictum “Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and tolerable administration of justice…” (see this Online Library of Liberty post)32:45 – using foreign judges to import the rule of law