Book Review: Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century

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Lindert, P. 2004. Social spending and economic growth: Interview with Peter Lindert. Challenge 47 (4): 6-16.

Lindert, P. H. 2003. Why the welfare state looks like a free lunch. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9869. Cambridge, MA: NBER.

Margo, R. A. 1991. Race and schooling in the South, 1880-1950: An economic history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mokyr, J. 2004. Personal communication following a talk on “The Miraculous Century” at Reed College, Portland, OR, April 20.