How Economic Aggregation Hides the Problems of Interventionism

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government, Taxes and Spending

02/07/2015 Gary Galles

Government likes to put out lots of data showing things like income and employment for huge numbers of people. The problem is, this tells us almost nothing about how real-life people are hurt or helped by government intervention, writes Gary Galles.

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