2/3s of the increase in cost of government services can be explained by decreased productivity: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30024147 https://www.jstor.org/stab

2/3s of the increase in cost of government services can be explained by decreased productivity: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30024147 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30024147. Alon Levy has an ongoing study into US construction costs in particular, which are almost entirely focused on government funded and executed infrastructure projects: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-costs-are-so-high-work-in-progress/ https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...