Government Cannot Create Sustainable Jobs

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Summary

Arnold Kling writes in Wall Street Journal Europe on his report for the Adam Smith Institute: 'Patterns of Sustainable Specialization and Trade'. He argues against the Keynesian argument that government should create jobs to tackle unemployment and that we should look to the theories of Adam Smith and David Ricardo when understanding employment patterns. 

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