Dan said: > One of the truisms that has been accepted by me, and others, is that > the US ecconomy has been growing faster than Europe's, and that this > reflects the advantages of less governmental control of the ecconomy. > I decided to try to find the numbers on this.
I've just started reading Will Hutton's _The World We're In_ (published in the US, where his earlier book on Britain, _The State We're In_ isn't so well known, as _The Declaration of Interdependence_) and he's chock full of criticisms of the US economy compared with the European one. One interesting thing he says is that the growth of productivity per hour worked in Europe has so outstripped that in the US that it's higher in France, the Netherlands, Belgium and the former West Germany than in America and only marginally lower in Ireland, Austria and Denmark. This is apparently masked in the more well known figures by the facts that Americans are working longer hours than Europeans and that more American women work. If you could find any figures on that, I'd be interested. (I'd look myself but I'm very busy at the moment.) Rich _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
