Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina - In: Public Choice 130 (2007) 3, pp. 267-292
This paper empirically analyzes whether government size is conducive or detrimental to life satisfaction in a cross-section of 74 countries. We thus provide a test of the longstanding dispute between standard neoclassical economic theory and public choice theory. According to the neoclassical...