Government Regulation: Friend or Foe?

To what extent should we allow a government to regulate businesses?

This week’s Lazy Literary Analysis approaches Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, with an eye toward regulations. The Jungle takes place in Chicago around the turn of the 20th century. Businesses of the time (particularly the meat packing industry) were entirely unregulated, leading to safety concerns as well as workers’ rights violations.

http://lazyliteraryanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-jungle-and-unregulated-capitalism.html

While Sinclair’s novel exposes the dangers of complete laissez-faire capitalism, there is also something to be said for the dangers of government OVER-regulation. So then where do we draw the line? At what point should the government step aside and stop regulating things?

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