"The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector," read a line from an email ...

Examples of public sector services include education, emergency services and medical care. In the UK, most of the goods and services available are provided by private sector businesses.

Over the years, I’ve written frequently about government efficiency and inefficiency. I even wrote a book that, among other things, measured types of efficiency across 38,000 local governments in the ...