Abstract

Government and Business

The article discusses the relationship between business and government. The author states that day-by-day new problems and new difficulties arise between government and business, but the hurly-burly increases, it never dies down. At bottom, it is all, of course, there is a struggle between government and the selfish motive of private profit, which actuates so many citizens. That profit motive is deemed in capitalist states as an indispensable well-spring of ambition if mankind is to advance, the Communists in Soviet Union being ridiculed for daring to assert that they can change human nature, substitute interest in the general welfare for interest in private profit and still expect industry, ambition and the determination to rise to manifest themselves among masses of the people.