Bigger Government (Record no. 9426)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9782970140139
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Classification number 339.095 ROB
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Personal name Marc Laurence Robinson
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Title Bigger Government
Remainder of title The Future Of Government Expenditure in Advanced Economies
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Arolla Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020
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Extent 376p.:maps.-22cm
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General note Includes Index page 371
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Summary, etc. FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOKS OF 2020Advanced nations are headed for a new era of bigger government, with government expenditure set to increase enormously over the next three decades. In all advanced economies, health spending will be driven irresistibly upwards by the costs of precision medicine and other new technologies, and well as the need to restore the capacity of the health system to deal with shocks like that which the world is facing at present. Governments will also be compelled to spend big on fighting global warming, fixing ailing infrastructure and providing adequate aged care for a rapidly graying population. The combined effect of these and other spending pressures threatens to drive budget deficits and government debt through the roof. Large tax increases will be necessary, most of all in the low-tax United States. Pruning welfare spending will also be high on the agenda in countries with the most comprehensive welfare states. Printing money ? as proposed by advocates of modern monetary theory ? is not a solution, but a sure route to disaster. Faced with this reality, the political right must abandon pipedreams of smaller government. The left, on the other hand, needs to recognize that there is no room or need for costly projects like a universal basic income. Mankind is not facing the threat of mass technological unemployment, and government spending needs to be focused on addressing real problems rather than imaginary ones.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Sustainable Development 01/17/2025   339.095 ROB URD001331 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book