There is unlikely to be agreement about why government grows (much less whether or not this is beneficial) until there is some clearer notion of what is to be m

This book contains eight papers focusing on factors associated with the growth of government. There is a large literature in public economics, especially public

A range of factors drive size of government: relative prices, the age-dependency ratio, how long a country has been independent, relative political freedom, and

Zysman demonstrates that there is a direct relationship between a nation's financial system and its government's ability to restart the growth engine.