Jobs Out of Thin Air

In City Journal, a look at the Tunisian riots and the power of economic mythmaking:


It is perfectly true, of course, that any number of jobs can be created at the stroke of a government’s pen. As the history of communism shows, everyone can be given a job. Unfortunately, prosperity is something else entirely.

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