Take the following as truth: (If you doubt this, read Matt Ridley's excellent new book, The Origins of Virtue .) That's one reason the ever expanding scope of economic activity is essentially a force of nature--it can be guided, it can be slowed, but it can't, realistically, be stopped.
Then the following statement: "Economics can be stopped by the government. " is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: False