Jonathan Tepper — Contest Is Dying, As Well As Taking Capitalism Alongside It

We remove a revolution to cast off monopolies in addition to restore entrepreneurial freedom. First of ii excerpts from “The Myth of Capitalism.”

Bloomberg Opinion
Competition Is Dying, in addition to Taking Capitalism With It

Jonathan Tepper

See likewise a curt review of The Myth of Capitalism

A lot of times, when y'all read reviews nearly books on the economy, y'all halt upwards wondering what the reviewer’s ‘priors’ are every bit people similar to country inwards economics. You read the review in addition to wonder where the biases of the reviewer are, because that tin enjoin y'all a lot nearly the review.

So I’m going to lay it out there.

The ‘Corporatist’ is a kleptocrat masquerading every bit a believer inwards liberty. He uses terminology based inwards liberty to build an ideology solely every bit a way of furthering the gains of a specific strata of gild allied amongst the corporatist in addition to at the expense of other strata, past times coercion if necessary.

That’s me, 7 years agone on this really website inwards a postal service I called Corporatism masquerading every bit Liberty. So, those are my priors coming into this; I’m individual who sees the ‘ideology’ of liberty in addition to liberty beingness used every bit a cloak in addition to shield for people who are almost alone self-interested. And what I believe has happened is that ideology has been injected into our shape of capitalism every bit a way of disarming naysayers in addition to allowing the ‘Corporatist’ to produce goodness at everyone’s expense.

So when I read “The Myth of Capitalism" (henceforth The MOC) was subtitled “Monopolies in addition to the Death of Competition", I was intrigued because the query for me was how self-interested people are able to reap all the gains of our system, piece avoiding a lot of the downsides....

econintersect
"The Myth Of Capitalism"
Edward Harrison, Credit Writedowns

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