Myths and realities of infrastructure spending… Glaeser

September 13, 2016 by Jim Colburn Leave a Comment

Infrastructure spending has become a favorite solution to sluggish economic growth… Ed Glaeser discusses myths and realities in an excellent article, “If You Build It..”, here:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/if-you-build-it-14606.html

Here is a takeaway quote:

“Subsidizing Big Mac consumption would be a more effective way to provide jobs for the temporarily unemployed than subsidizing airport renovation.”

Read the whole thing!

A hat tip goes to Alex Tabarrok, of my go to site, Marginal Revolution (http://marginalrevolution.com)…

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