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  • Capitalism is not Corporatism

    11/09/2026 7:51:09 AM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 7 replies
    IREF ^ | Ram Mudambi, Samuele Murtinu
    What are these ills that are laid at the door of capitalism? Just a short list includes: business monopolies that jack up prices and prey on captive consumers; laws favoring vested industry interests passed through lobbying, often in backroom insider deals; barriers to entry to squelch small competitors; fatcat executives without accountability to shareholders and multi-million-dollar payouts; systemic crises created by financial or corporate scandals; and the list goes on… But none of these ills is an attribute of capitalism – in fact, in a truly capitalistic system every one of these ills would disappear. These ills are the outcome...