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S8 Ep25: Growth and trust in government
Season 8 · Episode 25

S8 Ep25: Growth and trust in government

VoxTalks Economics

May 16, 202525m 38s

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Show Notes

Does economic growth inspire us to trust our governments? A new paper finds a surprisingly strong and consistent relationship between trust and economic growth – not for this quarter, or this year, but over our lifetimes. Tim Besley of the London School of Economics tells Tim Phillips how we can measure trust in a government around the world, and the strong and consistent relationship between long-run growth and trust.