Since about 2001, several sectors of the economy have become increasingly inefficient, in the sense that it takes more resources to produce a given output, such as 1000 barrels of oil. I believe that ...

Government inefficiency can stem from operational scale, being either too small or too large. The complexity of government operations, often surpassing private sector counterparts, contributes to ...

Over the years, I’ve written frequently about government efficiency and inefficiency. I even wrote a book that, among other things, measured types of efficiency across 38,000 local governments in the ...