Mou, Haizhen; Atkinson, Michael M.; Ul-Munim, Ata - In: Canadian Public Policy 40 (2014) 1, pp. 84-97
Debates about the size of government, which are often debates about what government should or should not do, need to be joined by a concern for the relative cost of government. Since 1981, the price in the public sector has grown faster than the price for GDP. We decompose the ratio between the...