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Monday, March 30, 2009

Japan Mulls New Round of Public Works


“Japan’s economy, the second-largest in the world, is shrinking at the fastest pace in more than 30 years, roughly twice as fast as the U.S. economy…. Now, a heated political argument is erupting across Japan over whether the entire country should follow Tokyo’s lead and pour taxpayer money into major public works…. The dilemma for Japan is that it has already been there and done that — in spades and not so long ago.” (New York Times, Monday)

Again, the broken-window fallacy.

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  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.