Practice question · True or false
Public spending in Western Europe rose from roughly a tenth of GDP in 1900 to around 40–50% by the mid-1970s.
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- The rise is roughly fourfold across three quarters of a century.
- About 10% at the start and 40–50% by the 1970s.
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True
Why
True, and the administrative implication is the point of the figure. Every point of that increase had to be organised, staffed and accounted for by someone, which is why the twentieth century is the century in which public administration became a discipline.
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