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Timmy Elsewhere

May 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

At the ASI.

If government now is larger than it was in 1975, can we really say that there was a slashing of the State?

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  • 1 Matthew // May 30, 2010 at 10:19 am

    Minor point but

    In fact, the only number that seems to have fallen over those years is the OECD Americas average, something I’m sure is a result of including Mexico’s zero (ie, not available, not no government) in 1975′s average.

    is almost right, it’s because Mexico isn’t included, and so the 1975 figure is a simple average of Canada & US, ie halfway between then. In fact the regional averages, being unweighted, are a little suscept – the US is about 90% of the N.Americas, isn’t it?

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