Corporate Welfare

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Higher Ed Cronyism in Serbia: A Case Study

08/15/2014Mises Daily ArticlesPredrag Rajsic

One of the most common ways in which cronyism manifests itself in Serbia is when professional degrees and employment positions are awarded based on political party membership , and not on the basis of professional expertise.

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Tax Cuts Are Only for the Powerful

Corporate WelfareWorld HistoryInterventionismPolitical Theory

08/12/2014Audio/VideoCrosby Kemper IIIRex Sinquefield

Politicians tell us that tax cuts aren't necessary for economic growth. But when a politically-powerful company offers to move to town and hire people, the politicians fall all over themselves to offer a tax cut. Ordinary business owners, meanwhile, get no such offers, writes Crosby Kemper III and...

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Why the Cost of Government Is Higher Than You Think

Big GovernmentCorporate WelfareInterventionism

05/28/2014Mises Daily ArticlesGary Galles

When governments spend, regulate, and tax, they decrease household take-home pay while diverting savings and investment to the government class.

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Cartels and Subsidies in Canadian Agriculture

Corporate WelfareLegal SystemInterventionism

05/22/2014Mises Daily ArticlesPredrag Rajsic

Canadian agricultural policy today subsidizes and controls markets in grain, dairy, and other products to ensure profitability.

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Crony Capitalism and the Transcontinental Railroads

Corporate WelfareU.S. History

03/10/2014Mises Daily ArticlesRyan McMaken

The first transcontinentals were all creatures, not of capitalism or the private markets, but of government.

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David Brooks, The Whigs, and Corporate Welfare

Corporate WelfareU.S. HistoryOther Schools of Thought

02/06/2014Mises Daily ArticlesThomas J. DiLorenzo

The NYT gets it wrong again. We are told the Whigs, the original crony capitalists, were the voice of the common man against a tyrannical government. Hogwash.

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13. The Founding Father of Crony Capitalism

Big GovernmentCorporate Welfare

01/31/2014Audio/VideoThomas J. DiLorenzo

Section Two: Politics and Thieves. Narrated by Harold L. Fritsche.

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General Electric’s Crony Capitalism

Corporate WelfareInterventionismOther Schools of Thought

11/25/2013Mises Daily ArticlesHunter Lewis

The Obama administration inserted language into the 2012 fiscal cliff bill that enabled GE to avoid paying much federal income tax.

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Life in Crony-Capitalist America

Corporate WelfareTaxes and SpendingU.S. EconomyInterventionism

11/14/2013Audio/VideoMark Thornton

Interviewed by Scott Horton, Mark Thornton discusses life in crony-capitalist America, where Wall Street gets bailouts and interest-free money and Main Street is stuck with Obamacare, food stamps and persistent unemployment.