Defending Government: Why Big Government Works.(Review) (book review)

Defending Government: Why Big Government Works. By Max Neiman. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 260p. $27.00 paper.

Max Neiman provides a concise, well-written, and comprehensive critical analysis of "the conservative attack on the public sector, especially its explanation for and evaluation of the size and growth of the public sector in the United States" (p. viii). In doing so, however, he only partially fulfills what is promised in the subtitle, namely, explaining why big government works. Rather than explicitly assess the reasons for goal achievement in a ...

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