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A Brief Retrospective on the Public Sector
What better way to mark the eve of the Canadian Civic Holiday weekend than with a quick civically engaged overview of the growth of the public sector from a historical perspective. In his 2011 Governments versus Markets: The Changing Economic Role of the State, Vito Tanzi provides a table on general government expenditures as a […]
Government Spending and Crime
I’ve been doing some data exploration on public sector spending and societal outcomes and have some preliminary results that have caused me to puzzle about what they might mean. I’ve been looking at annual data for OECD countries (33 countries) over the period 2000 to 2010 and the relationship between public sector size and crime […]
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative 
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