Since the formulation of the well-known law of the ‘displacement effect’ there has been a relative concentration on public consumption expenditure as a determinant of public-sector spending. However, in the last few years transfers toward the personal sector have been the most dynamic item and could effectively have caused the observed fluctuations in government expenditure. A causal analysis approach is used to suggest a method for explaining their dynamics in the period 1960–88.
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