The Rise of Big Government

Government is never big enough. Here’s why. The welfare state is taken for granted. Its presence in modern Western economies, including the United States, is so deeply entrenched that life without it seems unfathomable. Yet, the Western world has been in a long process of economic stagnation. This begs the question, if big, redistributive government is bad for economic growth and our long-term prosperity, why do politicians in the Western world in general still defend, even seek to expand, the welfare state? This book answers that question and presents an argument that has not been made before. Once politicians embrace egalitarianism they also accept that government is never big enough.