Still, France’s supersize government is hardly a source of unalloyed dynamism. And indeed, one suspects that France’s GDP and productivity measures are flattered by the fact that, for lack of market prices, statisticians blindly assume that citizens get one dollar of value for each dollar spent on government, which might be an overstatement.
同时，法国过度庞大的政府并非纯粹的动力来源。事实上，那些质疑法国GDP和生产力测量方法的人都受到了蒙蔽，这是因为市场定价的缺失导致统计学家们盲目假设公民每花一美元在政府身上就能得到一美元价值的回报，但这个数字可能是夸大了。