All Posts Tagged With: "corporate state"
Capitalism, Corporatism, and the Freed Market
The system that most immediately threatens individual liberty is corporatism.
3Feb2012 | Sheldon Richman | 21 comments | ContinuedThe Mobility Gap: What Does It Mean?
“Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe.”
6Jan2012 | Sheldon Richman | 16 comments | ContinuedPutting Bureaucracy First: Rachel Maddow’s Progressivism
Bureaucratic dominance does not merely lower material living standards or reduce profit opportunities. It crushes lives and dreams.
18Nov2011 | Sheldon Richman | 31 comments | ContinuedThey’re Not Insulting Our Mothers
That the wealth of the nonrich has grown is no reason to be complacent about corporatism. It simply shows that something less than complete freedom goes a long way.
4Nov2011 | Sheldon Richman | 33 comments | ContinuedBankers, Not the Free Market, Bear Blame
Many of the housing policies implicated in the financial crisis were not imposed on the bankers but rather were aggressively lobbied for.
3Nov2011 | Steven Horwitz | 31 comments | ContinuedCorporatism and Power to the People
In a freed market the power rests with the 99 percent of us who buy the products, not the 1 percent who sell them.
13Oct2011 | Steven Horwitz | 56 comments | ContinuedWhy Not to Scorn Occupy Wall Street
OWS offers a blank slate for libertarians willing to write their own messages and march.
11Oct2011 | Wendy McElroy | 57 comments | ContinuedWall Street Couldn’t Have Done It Alone
To Occupy Wall Street: Wall Street couldn’t have done it alone. It takes a government and/or its central bank, the Federal Reserve System, to: Create barriers to entry for the purpose of sheltering existing banks from competition and radical innovation, then regulate for the benefit of the privileged industry; Issue artificially cheap, economy-distorting credit in [...]
7Oct2011 | Sheldon Richman | 63 comments | ContinuedElizabeth Warren’s Non Sequitur
Boiled down, Warren’s argument is that since everyone has paid taxes to provide services without which wealthy people couldn’t have made their money, they should pay more. How does that follow?
23Sep2011 | Sheldon Richman | 82 comments | ContinuedAffording It All
People who don’t understand—or who don’t care about—economics say funny things. Well, they would be funny if they weren’t so damaging when translated into government policy. Take Lawrence O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. He must be a smart guy. He’s articulate. He’s been an adviser to a senator of some [...]
24Aug2011 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedNo Laissez Faire There
What’s often unappreciated is that writers sympathetic to the free market have disparaged the Gilded Age as broadly illiberal and contrary to the spirit of free enterprise.
6May2011 | Sheldon Richman | 18 comments | ContinuedObama’s Corporatist Big Plans
We should reject the false choice between corporate statism and stagnation, and say no thank you to the “big things” Obama and his business cronies have in store for us.
28Jan2011 | Sheldon Richman | 22 comments | ContinuedA Feature, Not a Bug
One of the purposes of the State is to serve the interests of those with the most to spend and the most to gain from intervention.
20Jan2011 | Steven Horwitz | 25 comments | ContinuedThe More Things Change…
From the Washington Post: The president’s recently departed budget director is joining Citigroup. The New York Federal Reserve Bank’s derivatives expert is joining Goldman Sachs. And numerous investigators from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are joining Wall Street’s top law firms. The vast overhaul of financial regulations and the renewed intensity [...]
30Dec2010 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Charade
The best phrase to sum up Barack Obama’s presidency is not “African anticolonial socialist” but “American Progressive corporatist.”
15Oct2010 | Sheldon Richman | 15 comments | ContinuedThe Most Dangerous Derivative
An unlikely alliance may be forming among people who would not ordinarily be found in the same room.
20Aug2010 | Sheldon Richman | 65 comments | ContinuedIt’s All State Capitalism
David Brooks, the New York Times resident conservative op-ed writer, is power’s best friend.
18Jun2010 | Sheldon Richman | 20 comments | Continued-
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