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Egg on the Face of Government
Author(s) -
JESSEN FRANZ
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1982.tb01469.x
Subject(s) - confusion , government (linguistics) , danish , face (sociological concept) , production (economics) , economic interventionism , business , economics , economic history , political science , sociology , law , psychology , politics , philosophy , social science , microeconomics , linguistics , psychoanalysis
A classical example of the cost of government intervention is the fiasco in egg production induced by the Danish Government's prohibition of battery production. Franz Jessen describes the costs and confusion and warns other counties not to repeat Denmark's mistakes.