Part 1: Introductory Chapter: 1. Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Questioning the Mission Economy -- Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives -- 2. State and Markets: Not Whether But How -- 3. Engineering Is Not Entrepreneurship -- 4. A Behavioral Economics Perspective on the Entrepreneurial...

In a recent review article Jonas Agell, Thomas Lindh and Henry Ohlsson (1997) claim that theoretical and empirical evidence does not allow any conclusion on whether there is a relationship between the rate of economic growth and the size of the public sector. They illustrate their conclusion...

A number of cross-country comparisons do not find a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth. In part this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for rich countries with large public sectors. In this paper...