Government Failure and Over-Government

In this volume of the collected works of classical liberal economist Arthur Seldon (former editorial director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, UK), his The Dilemma of Democracy (1998) is presented along with five other selections. In Dilemma he criticizes government for being to involved in markets and advocates for state rollback relative to national income. In the other articles, he discusses tax "avoision" (blurring the distinction between avoidance and evasion), citizen efforts to escape burdensome government, and sources of resistance to economic change in Britain in the late 1970s, Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR