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    The Size of Government: Measurement, Methodology and Official Statistics
    The Size of Government: Measurement, Methodology and Official Statistics
    The Size of Government: Measurement, Methodology and Official Statistics
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    The Size of Government: Measurement, Methodology and Official Statistics

    By Vaclav Rybacek

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    The growing economic power of government has prompted many studies to seek to establish the optimum size of government and how it might relate to economic growth, productivity and inflation.

    Václav Rybácek examines how these studies have used national accounts and officially published statistics to invariably underestimate the size of government, which has lead to erroneous economic policy recommendations and ultimately to an unrealistic assessment of a government’s ability to meet its debts. The book shows how the methodology of macroeconomic statistics has failed to keep pace with the expansion of government and has misallocated, for example, many public producers in the field of financial services, to the corporate sector. Even central banks conducting government policy are shown to stand outside official figures on the size of government. Similarly, when showing the relative size of government, the choice of denominator, such as GDP, can further lead to underestimating government size.

    Drawing on Austrian economic theory, in particular in relation to market operation, the book offers a more robust methodology for the measurement of government, which is then used to recalculate fiscal indicators and GDP in order to present a more appropriate set of data for the analysis of public sector dynamics in the majority of EU countries.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAgenda Publishing
    Release dateDec 12, 2019
    ISBN9781788213103
    The Size of Government: Measurement, Methodology and Official Statistics
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    Vaclav Rybacek

    Vaclav Rybacek is an Assistant Professor at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem and Director of the Macroeconomic Statistics Section at the Czech Statistical Office. He is a research associate of the Liberal Institute, Prague and a member of statistical bodies of the United Nations, OECD and Eurostat on national accounts and government statistics.

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