Bauer Chapter 4

• What are the implications for the future? Are there long- or short-term consequences to the issues raised in the book? Are they positive or negative, affirming or frightening?

     I believe chapter 4 to be an important chapter because it is forcing us to ask ourselves some difficult questions. If we don't ask ourselves how much government do we need and how much government is too much things are certainly never going to improve. Wheelan references a lot of the stigma associated with government in today's society, yet he also alludes to the reasoning that our form of government is so much better than so many of the alternatives. As a nation we main complain about the role of the government in economics, but the reality is we have it so much better than most everybody else. I think it is really our responsibility to continue to question the government's role in certain aspects of business to just try and continue to improve the situation as much as possible. It maybe true we will never find the secret the perfect system, but that doesn't mean we stop trying to make things better.