1.7.3 Government Failure Examples

Typical Examples

• The water-saving device wasting billions of litres every week (BBC 29-Sep-20)
• Npower criticised over low energy light bulb handout (BBC 02-Jan-10)
• Warning by local councils over black market cigarettes (BBC 23-Aug-14)

China's Great Sparrow Campaign

• Great Sparrow Campaign (Short video, German Audio)
• Great Sparrow Campaign (Video, The History Guy)
• China's Four Pests Campaign (Wikipedia)

Thailand Rice Mountain

• Thai rice plan stores up a mountain of problems (BBC Video 05-Feb-14)
• Information on Thailand Rice Scheme (Wikipedia)

Prohibition in the USA

• How Prohibition Created the Mafia (History Channel Video)

Boeing and Regulatory Capture

• Boeing and the FAA
• Boeing's 'culture of concealment' to blame for 737 crashes (BBC 16-Sep-20)