Business and the Government
Business and the public in partnership Taxation and business Government, natural resources and the farmer Government encouragement of industries and commerce Public inspection of business Problems of employment Public service corporations Local public utilities Trusts and combinations The postal service Should public management be extended? The great war: its effects, its influence, its lessons
The Course opens with the personal relations of a man to a business and continues with an analysis of the various activities which constitute modern business. In this section it closes with the manifold relations of business to government.
Business is, as it were, in partnership with the government. In this partnership the government is active, as there are government departments aiming to promote business in manufactures and in trading.
Business, of course, cannot exist without government, and as the war demonstrated, government cannot exist without business. Business is restive, however, under the close supervision wrought of war necessities. How far is such supervision justified in times of peace?
This is a question both of principle and expediency and all its aspects are brought out in the discussion of specific problems, the tariff, trusts and corporations, public utilities, national and local, and the like.