RE: No one is going to read that
Posted on: January 18, 2020 at 12:00:18 CT
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What is the relationship between the rise of big government and the rise of American prosperity? It seems that people on the right and left are quick to confuse correlation with causation. They believe that the US is wealthy because the government is big and expansive. This error is probably the most common of all errors in political economy. It is just assumed that buildings are safe because of building codes, that stock markets are not dens of thieves because of the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), that the elderly don't starve and die because of Social Security, and so on, all the way to concluding that we should credit big government for American wealth.