R. Bruce Magee

The book is a superb remedy for those who have been drinking the Kool-Aid about business suffering from government overreach. The authors aren’t socialists; they don’t call for heavy-handed government management or regulation of business. They merely point out that no oversight, which big business has taught the consumer is best for everyone, often leads to harm. Big business also wants us to think that the invisible hand of private markets will resolve every problem. It doesn’t, because there are some problems private enterprise doesn’t want to tackle, like the absence of electricity in the deep south in the 1930s. Regulation of business is no different than regulation at a busy intersection that has stoplights. Traffic controls are not intrusive regulation; they’re common sense.