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However, there are several reasons why the government should be cautious before dipping its hands into taxpayers' pockets. First, although charities seem to add significant value at current levels of funding, there is no guarantee that any extra money will produce similar amounts of added value. It may be that charities' income and outputs are around their optimal level, and that the value added would fall as their income, and therefore their costs, rose.
     Second, the study does not look at whether the government agencies or private firms could perform good works more efficiently than charities do. In research comparing care homes for the elderly, Laing & Buisson, a health-care consultancy, has found that charity-run homes are less cost-effective than ones run by for-profit firms. Were this true of good deeds in general, it might be better for the government to hire private contractors to care for vulnerable people, instead of subsiding charities to do so.

First and above all, the "Decline and Fall" is a good history. In its massive erudition, its phenomenal accuracy and its sober judgment it still stands as the indispensable starting point of any study of the Roman empire. Second, the work should be read for the majesty of Gibbon's prose. This is eloquence in the grandest manners, cunningly matched to its twin functions of narration and explanation. It is not to be imitated, but to be studied and enjoyed.

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