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Subject: Re: Socialism by its very nature creates more government than does capitalism.
(V): Here is the first thing I read, took about 10 seconds to find.....
The data in Exhibit 4 for OECD countries suggests that smaller government is correlated with faster rates of economic growth. While in theory government could be too small to provide the necessary environment for economic growth, the data in Exhibit 4 give no indication that any OECD government was excessively small at any time during 1960-96. Within the size of government range of this period, smaller government was consistently associated with more rapid economic growth.
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