San Antonio College Library

Presents an argument for government intervention in the free market in order to safeguard competition and promote innovation, explaining that competition policies forged in the 1970s are no longer compatible with today's economy; in an account that also traces landmark legal battles involving such companies as Apple, Microsoft, and AT & T.

"Integrating approaches from political science, the study of business, and economics into a unified whole, Government, Business, and the American Economy, second edition, explores the many ways in which governments and the business world are interconnected."--Jacket.

"Retaking Rationality argues that environmentalists and other progressive groups, by rejecting the economic analysis of regulation, have allowed industry groups and conservative intellectuals to convince the public that strong environmental, public health, and safety regulation is bad economic policy. The truth is that economic analysis - conducted in an unbiased manner - will often support strong regulation. That truth is hidden because, as currently...

The book concludes that in a global economy the burden-some regulations of foreign countries deserve attention, but increasingly so do the burdens that American adversarial legalism imposes on this country and sometimes on others. Ideas and prospects for correcting the problem are discussed throughout.

Four barons of regulation, the complex relationship between business and government, are profiled with insight toward their individual influence on their agencies. Analyzing these men as "independent social force[s]" questions the validity of personal regulatory failure versus institutional regulatory failure, and why regulation is still an active part of government today.