Lessons From The Global Laboratory Of Economic Experimentation : Selected Essays

Since I'm first and foremost a public finance economist, I'll share one of my favorite tactics when debating fiscal policy. I'll oftentimes share a table showing a list of nations that have achieved very good results by restraining the growth of government spending. I'll show how the burden of government spending declined as a share of economic output and I'll show how budget deficits also shrank as a share of GDP. I'll then ask my colleague from the other side to please share a list of nations that got good results by raising taxes. Unsurprisingly, the usual response is either untrue claims or hemming and hawing. When seeking to educate and convince a non-ideological audience that they should favor economic freedom, I've learned that there's no substitute for this kind of real-world evidence. Most people think of themselves as being practical. My daily columns are designed to reach these people. If I can reach their minds, maybe their hearts will follow. -- From the Introduction

• | Author: Dan Mitchell
• | Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 84 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1925501671
• | ISBN-13: 9781925501674