government regulation in society theme
Featured is the extent to which the government should use its power to alter firms' pricing, entry, production, investment, and product choice decisions.
Examples
World government regulation was preventing the deployment of a game changing form of space-beamed solar power from solving Earth's energy crisis in "Libra" (1978). The Ghostbuster's small business was obstructed by incompetent government regulator William Atherton in "Ghostbusters" (1984).
5 total · 1 choice · 1 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Libra (1978) | choice | The Libra colonists were discouraged over how the Earth government was stifling new development with all their centralized policies, tariffs, taxes, over-regulation, and nationalization. |
| movie: The Henderson Monster (1980) | major | There was ongoing conflict between the university faculty and the city council over the extent to which the research of government funded scientists at the university ought to brought under public oversight. |
| movie: Ghostbusters (1984) | minor | The Ghostbuster's small business was obstructed by incompetent government regulator William Atherton. |
| movie: The Clone Master (1978) | minor | Government regulator Harry Tiezer pestered Simon and Ezra with burdensome requests for progress reports and threatened to cutoff their research funding unless they did more to justify their research in writing. |
| movie: The Stuff (1985) | minor | The Stuff Company managed to get "The Stuff" FDA approved by getting the regulators addicted to the substance. |