Geh mir aus der Sonne – Staat – und konstruktive Hilfe ist okay!
Geschichte ist bekanntlich die beste Lehrerin mit den schlechtesten Schülern.
Aus gegebenem Anlass, da gerade wieder Noten vergeben werden für die amtierende Regierung, hier eine kurze Lektion aus umfangreichen Untersuchungen der frühen Neuzeit von der renommierten Historikerin und Ökonomin Sheilagh Ogilvie (*1958):
“The lesson of history, it concludes, is not to build a capacious state. Rather, we need a state that uses its capacity to help (or at least not hinder) market activity.”
und etwas ausführlicher im Schlussteil ihrer Papers:
“History suggests that the challenge is not to build a capacious state—many states in the past half- millennium have built capacity. Rather, the challenge is to build a growth-friendly state. History provides a few hints. How an economy gets a state that encourages growth is by fostering constitutional scrutiny, correcting market failures, curbing rent-seeking, and letting markets and civil society provide services in which they have advantages. It is not to give the state capacity to extract a lot of resources which it can then waste on war, subsidising flagship enterprises, and enforcing elite extraction. The state can support economic growth—but also harm it. History suggests that we need to be attentive to the bright side of state capacity, but also to its dark side.”
Quelle
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/national-institute-economic-review/article/abs/state-capacity-and-economic-growth-cautionary-tales-from-history/3270DDE7FA980C7A62FC7AF7362A7015