``Government Regulation: Using Force for the Common Good'' (May 9, 2012)

     I am writing a book for my course on Business and Government for senior bus econ majors at Indiana University. Comments are welcomed. I am thinking about self-publishing and charging a relatively low price for electronic or paper copies--- something on the order of $20 each. It will be ready in about a year, but the chapters are already pretty much written. What remains is polishing, diagram-drawing, improving, introduction, table of contents, index, references, and a website with old tests, news clipping, overhead slides, and suchlike.

• Markets Chapter 1.
  1. Rivals Attack Romney on Bain: Debate Sparked within GOP Over Free Enterprise; Romney Defends His Record,"

• Market failure. Chapter 2 .
  1. "When Romney ran Bain Capital, his word was not his bond,"
  2. "Arrests in Insider Probe: Government Says Tech Managers Sold Secrets About iPhone and Other Products."

• Government failure. Chapter 3.
  1. The "United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC" Supreme Court oral argument of January 17, 2012 in transcript and audio.
  2. Han Fei: "Five Vermin: A Pathological Analysis of Politics".

• Life, Time, and Taxes. Chapter 4 .

• Market power. Chapter 5 .

• Monopolizing. Chapter 6 .
  1. "H&R Block Antitrust Loss Is Win for U.S. Ahead of AT&T Trial" (Business Week, Nov. 16, 2011).
  2. "H&R Block Drops TaxACT Buy After Antitrust Ruling" (Associated Press, Nov. 15, 2011),

• Public utilities. Chapter 7 .

• Asymmetric Information. Chapter 8.

• Selling Labor. Chapter 9 .

• Banking. Chapter 10 .
  1. General Motors, AIG, and Citigroup news itemsand article.

• Pollution. Chapter 11 .

• Conservation. Chapter 12.

Quiz and test answers are in the directory http://rasmusen.org/g406/tests/.