Kuckuck, Jan - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 70 (2014) 1, pp. 128-168
Using historical data from the mid-19th century, we test the validity of Wagner's law of increasing state activity at …, Finland, and Italy. In order to investigate the relation between Wagner's law and development stage, we classify every country … of development. Furthermore, all countries under review support the notion that Wagner's law may have lost its economic …