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This article discusses the need for the US economy to become more sustainable and the role of the American government in this process. The author argues that the private sector can't make the transition from a waste-based economy to a renewable one by itself. He believes that a public-private partnership is necessary. The article claims that the private sector has a more important role in the transition because it produces the goods and services that are depended on today. However, the government can implement rules to ensure that economic activity does not destroy the plant. The government can fund basic science needed for renewable energy and resource technology and uses taxes, government purchasing power, and other financial tools to steer private capital toward investment in sustainable technologies and businesses. The government can also invest in sustainable infrastructure, regulate land use, work with private or state organizations, measure society's progress toward sustainability, and transfer sustainability technologies to the developing world. It is the belief of the author that sustainability issues cannot be addressed by the private sector/free market alone and require government action. The future of the nation and the plant depends of the government's role in a transition to a renewable resource based economy.

This article, published by the Wall Street Journal on October 28, 2015, describes cash injections into the economy by the government sector. The article explores what U.S. economic growth could have been like if the U.S. government hadn't cut spending in the economy. The author wagers that if spending had continued, the U.S. economy could have grown more significantly than it has.

To battle China's decreasing economy government has decided to increase it's tourism sector hoping the increased revenue can help the economy as well as boost domestic spending. If society itself does not spend how is it expected to generate profit. However in order to make sure tourists know of the new sector they are creating advertisement would have to be paid for or else there could rise the possibility of a market failure that occurs with positive externality of production

Developing economies have been trying to figure out what makes them so behind and the answer came out to be education. But education type can't be the same world wide as each place is the same and so are the focuses on the lucrative sectors ( some could be agriculture some manufacture). In one Indian village although the school had to show government they were keeping up with it's regulations they didn't have to show the parents so for five years parents would keep their kids from farm lands and let them go to school only to find out there was no change. Places like this would not benefit from education types such as that in the U.S they need one that conforms to their own styles. In Brazil another school enabled a method that the money follows the child, because if a teacher has no interest in children it doesn't matter how much you pay them the quality of education will not increase. Once the Brazilian school figured that out they were able to increase quality of education and score highest in PISA maths test 2003-2012. Economic development in education is all about quality and quantity of education; quality of the institution, teachers etc.