Does Technology Drive the Growth of Government?

Tyler Cowen ()
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Tyler Cowen: George Mason University

Chapter Chapter 3 in Essays on Government Growth, 2021, pp 51-65 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract I consider technology as a partial explanation of the historical shift towards big government. The late nineteenth century and early twentieth century saw a fundamental change in the production technology for large government, and for large institutions more generally. Large institutional structures require a certain degree of communications, organization, and coordination. Only in the late nineteenth century did these structures become possible and big government was one result of that expansion of the production possibilities frontier.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55081-3_3

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