Yesterday’s Games: Contingency Learning and the Growth of Public Spending, 1890-1938
dc.contributor.author | Dudley, Léonard | |
dc.contributor.author | WITT, Ulrich | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-22T19:56:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-22T19:56:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1866/509 | |
dc.format.extent | 197678 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.publisher | Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques. | fr |
dc.subject | Wagner's Law | |
dc.subject | war | |
dc.subject | government expenditures | |
dc.subject | democracy | |
dc.subject | globalization | |
dc.subject | [JEL:H5] Public Economics - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies | en |
dc.subject | [JEL:H5] Économie publique - Dépenses du gouvernement national et politiques afférentes | fr |
dc.title | Yesterday’s Games: Contingency Learning and the Growth of Public Spending, 1890-1938 | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Université de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. Département de sciences économiques | |
dcterms.abstract | Neither democracy nor globalization can explain the doubling of the peacetime public share in many Western countries between World Wars I and II. Here we examine two other explanations that are consistent with the timing of the observed changes, namely, (1) a shift in the demand for public goods and (2) the effect of war on the willingness to share. We first model each of these approaches as a contingency-learning phenomenon within Schelling’s Multi-Person Dilemma. We then derive verifiable propositions from each hypothesis. National time series of public spending as a share of GNP reveal no unit root but a break in trend, a result shown to favor explanation (2) over (1). | |
dcterms.isPartOf | urn:ISSN:0709-9231 | |
UdeM.VersionRioxx | Version publiée / Version of Record | |
oaire.citationTitle | Cahier de recherche | |
oaire.citationIssue | 2003-20 |
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