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Jackoby on Government Failure

Geoff Riley

10th March 2008

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How government makes things worse - Jeff Jacoby writes about the law of unintended consequences and government failure in today’s Boston Globe. There are spooky parallels with failed government policies here at home.

“WHAT DO ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences - and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by the state to exacerbate the harms they were meant to solve.”

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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