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'Big government' hurts growth? It's not as simple as that

  • Written by Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Casual Academic, RMIT University
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Since the late 1970s it has largely been the consensus that “big government” is detrimental to growth. This manifested after the financial crisis when countries, including previously fiscally-comfortable countries like Germany and the UK, adopted austerity programs, ostensibly to spur growth...

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