{"id":40235,"date":"2018-11-07T10:28:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40235"},"modified":"2018-11-11T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:51:39","slug":"the-myth-of-capitalism-a-book-by-jonathan-tepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40235","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of Capitalism \u2013 A Book by Jonathan Tepper"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Myth of Capitalism \u2013 A Book by Jonathan Tepper<\/a><\/h3>\n

Crony Capitalism vs. Free Markets<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of our readers are probably aware of the excellent work our friend Jonathan Tepper does for Variant Perception <\/em>(VP)*****, a financial research boutique that really does<\/em> bring a unique perspective to the table*. Jonathan (with co-author Denise Hearn) has just added a new book to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/em>, which is going to be released on 12 November: The Myth of Capitalism (MoC) \u2013 Monopolies and the Death of Competition** <\/em>(a link to the official site is at the end of this post).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jonathan Tepper and Denise Hearn: The Myth of Capitalism, an excellent plea for more competition and free markets.<\/p>\n

MoC<\/em> deals with a subject that has increasingly captured the attention of political and economic observers in recent years: the growing quasi-monopolistic powers of a small (and shrinking) number of large corporations that have seemingly succeeded in exempting themselves from competition.<\/p>\n

They are often aided and abetted by government imposing regulations certain to suppress competition from less well-funded upstarts and smaller firms. At the same time governments are creating loopholes which only the biggest established firms with international operations are able to take advantage of.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get us wrong \u2013 we have no problem with loopholes as such: to paraphrase Mises, they allow capitalism to breathe. Problematic is only that the benefits granted to the most powerful players are denied to their potential competitors; we wouldn\u2019t want to see these loopholes closed, we would like to see them extended far and wide.<\/p>\n

Restoring Consumer Sovereignty\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

MoC<\/em> is not focused on questions of monopoly theory***. The book is actually quite a page turner, at the same time informative, entertaining and infuriating. It is primarily concerned with practical problems and discusses what might be done to overcome them.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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