Econobloggers: Does Big Government Help or Hurt Growth? Or Neither?
September 11th, 2013
Tim Kane was nice enough to include my question in this year’s Hudson Survey of Leading Economics Bloggers (PDF). Here’s the question and the results:
Judging based on post-war economic data, how do prosperous, high-GDP/capita countries compare with one another? Countries with larger government sectors have _____ growth rates compared to countries with smaller government sectors.
As a group, they did very well on this question:
Almost 50% got the right answer, and those who got it wrong were evenly split.
Cross-posted at Angry Bear.
