1. Introducing government failure -- 2. How market and society relate -- 3. The G-Factor : weighing the visible hand of … government intervention / Killian J. McCarthy and Tao Zhu -- 4. Government policy : private incentives, public virtues? -- 5 …. Government failure -- 6. Policy conflicts : the case of healthcare -- 7. Government failure, IPRs and economic development -- 8 …