Honey, I shrunk the state

Mike King writes about two influential Quakers and the role of the state

by Mike King 1st August 2014

I can think of no more fundamental question for social justice than this: how big should our state be? Those who argue for a small state place themselves within the right or libertarian tradition, while those who want more state intervention place themselves within the left or social democrat tradition. I was prompted to explore this question by two recently published books, Life After the State by Dominic Frisby and The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato, which respectively advocate small and large government.