Although government spending provides citizens with many important benefits, such benefits must be weighed against the disincentivizing effects of increased labor taxes.

Richard Rogerson discussed the important questions concerning the optimal size and scope of federal spending.

In his just-published The Impact of Labor Taxes on Labor Supply (AEI Press, 2010), Arizona State University economist Richard Rogerson warns that what the government does with tax revenues influences how much people work.

Why do Americans devote so much more time to working for pay than continental Europeans? Which population groups display the biggest differences in work activity across countries? Do taxes and entitlement programs explain the large national differences in work activity and their evolution over time? Richard Rogerson, a professor of...

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