The Limits of government regulation / edited by James F. Gatti ; with a foreword by Malcolm F. Severance.

Includes bibliographical references.

An overview of the problem of government regulation / James F. Gatti -- Government regulation and a free society / William E. Simon -- A new threat to freedom: the challenge of the 1980's / Harry J. Bolwell -- Poverty, the distribution of income, and social policy: some thoughts / Thomas Sowell -- Is Mrs. Thatcher curing the British disease? / John O'Sullivan -- An overview of government regulation / Murray L. Weidenbaum -- Cost of government regulation study / the Business Roundtable, Arthur Andersen & Co. -- The distressing relationship between government and business / Thomas A. Murphy -- The problem of balancing the costs and benefits of regulation: two views / Allen R. Ferguson and Murray L. Weidenbaum -- Reindustrialization: a cure worse than the disease? / James F. Gatti.