> Government regulation is the answer, but it's not being applied efficiently here
Do you have any examples of Government Regulations that are applied efficiently and do not cause harm to any individuals?
Do you have any examples of Government Regulations that are applied efficiently and do not cause harm to any individuals?
You're moving the bar a little there. There will always be harm to individuals due to the law of unintended consequences. However, government regulation is really good at preventing a "Tragedy of the Commons."
For instance, regulations on CFC emissions hurt a lot of individuals. However, they prevented a much greater tragedy.
Removing lead from car exhaust marginally hurt an entire generation, while improving the lives of the next by orders of magnitude.
Other examples: Building codes, Car Safety, Fair Labor Standards Act, Food and Drug Regulations.
Food safety, leaded gas and paint, restricted chemicals lists (for safety reason, less of a fan of drug bans).
Bank deposit reserve requirements. Obamacare. Antitrust legislation.
Seat belts (extremely controversial at the time, people protested the loss of their freedoms etc etc).
Alaska’s Permanent Fund. Norway’s government pension fund.
Your bar for a government regulation is really “not a single individual is harmed”? That’s insane, and almost exactly the problem anonporridge was describing.
Almost every government regulation harms someone, in that it almost always is limiting the actions available to someone.
To answer your question: no, there is no such regulation, but it’s not relevant, because I think your metric is atrocious.
This thread is about managing and reducing harm in places where having “no harm” (whatever that means) isn’t an option.
Mandating that the US postal service deliver to every address at a single price. This results in an efficient single price, efficiencies of scale that private carriers don't even have, and does not harm anyone outside of the externalities that would already exist for mail delivery regardless of who was doing the delivering.