IS WAGNER LAW STILL VALID?

Abstract

The article refers to the Wagner’s principle, known in the economic  literature as a law of growing general government outlays, which  was formulate in the end of  XIX century. The author asked, if the Wagner’s principle is present in the contemporary national economy. The first part of this article presents some elements of business enterprises theory which point to the market environment’s role for enterprise development. In the next parts, the author presents the features of non-market environment identifying with national institution and its agenda. Than he analyses the scale of public consumption on the basis of the general government outlays in EU. The last part entitled “integration process and   public needs” is the conclusion of this article  -  it presents the thesis, that next public needs appear with the integration and global processes.