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Kate Malcolm wants a definition of big government, and I guess I mean by it government that displaces a large portion of the private economy. That's the way I tend to think, is in terms of economics. (If Lily really does have a Richard Posner fan club, I wouldn't mind joining. I have a Calvin Coolidge fan club; appropriately, it doesn't actually do much. But I digress.) There's some difficulty, in the limit of small government, with determining what exactly that means, at least if we suppose that no government would mean chaos and the breakdown of the marketplace. (For thoughts on this, see a National Geographic article from last year on Somalia, where a fellow from a cell-phone company exults at how much easier it is to operate in an environment of anarchy than it was with the previous government.) I am fully confident that we are not near that limit. |
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