Politicians Really Can't Create Jobs (Bloomberg Businessweek)

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The continued and ubiquitous concern with pocketbook issues is regularly reflected (PDF) in actual election results—high employment and high growth favor the incumbent. Few politicians anywhere intentionally do things to considerably slow economic growth or lower employment. Self-interest and selfless concern for constituents both point in the same direction. And yet the last few years amply demonstrate their efforts to promote growth and jobs often fail, sometimes miserably.

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