A U-turn on the road to serfdom
Subtitle: prospects for reducing the size of the state
By: Grover Norquist ; with contributions by Nima Sanandaji, Matthew Sinclair, David B. Smith
Contributors: Sanandaji, Nima, 1981- contributor; Sinclair, Matthew, contributor; Smith, David B. (David Brian), 1946- contributor; Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain)
Series: Occasional paper -- 150; IEA Hayak memorial lecture; Occasional paper (Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain)) -- 150.; IEA Hayek memorial lecture
Publisher: The Institute for Economic Affairs; Institute of Economic Affairs
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780255366861
Subjects: Government spending policy; Public Finance; Economic policy
Other titles: Prospects for reducing the size of the state
Description: Governments throughout the Western world are spending at levels that could not have been imagined by pre-war economists - even by people such as Keynes. High levels of government spending have had a significant effect on economic growth and on economic freedom. In his 2013 Hayek lecture, Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, explains how the tide can be turned. He discusses both the political and economic mechanisms necessary to effect change. In three commentaries on the lecture, economists set the UK and European context and discuss how policy changes on this side of the Atlantic can make our economies more conducive to reform. Such reforms are necessary, argue all the authors, to ensure that we have dynamic economies in which governments serve the needs of their citizens rather than simply tax and spend more. -Back cover.
Notes: "....2014 IEA annual Hayek memorial lecture." -- page x.

Includes bibliographical references.