Europe must decide how big it wants its public sector to be: France's public spending at 58 percent of GDP is above the late Soviet Union's.

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  Europe is not in economic decline; by the measures that matter most it is keeping up with the United States.

  Durov says Europe must decide how big it wants its public sector to be, and points out that France public spending is above the late Soviet Union as a share of GDP. Krugman says the European underperformance story is largely American triumphalism. The share of output the state moves and the standard of living it buys are two different numbers, and each man is holding up one of them.

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