This paper explores the determinants of public employment across the world and finds that it is negatively associated with country size (by population) and positively associated with the income level. The findings show that a country's openness to trade is positively associated with public...

Abstract: In nahezu allen Industrienationen hat sich der Anteil der Staatsausgaben am Sozialprodukt in den letzten 50 Jahren deutlich erhöht. Zudem wächst der Anteil der Sozialtransfers an den Staatsausgaben. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Gründe des Ausgabenwachstums mit dem...

Libertarian talk-radio host Goyette explains how the growth of federal power and its costly warfare and welfare spending are bankrupting America and strangling our prosperity. Our leaders are ideologically bankrupt. The Obama White House has forced the adoption of bailouts and unnecessary...

The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—""neoliberalism""—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher. But why did neoliberal policies gain such...