{"id":34422,"date":"2017-11-07T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34422"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:43:25","slug":"qotd-crony-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/qotd-crony-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Crony capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Fascism is actually an economic system, of which &#8220;crony capitalism&#8221;, an illegitimate partnership between government and business, is an excellent example. Known otherwise as corporate socialism or simply corporatism, other eras (Adam Smith\u2018s for instance, in his book <em>Wealth of Nations<\/em>) have called it Mercantilism. <\/p>\n<p>L. Neil Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.org\/tle2016\/tle864-20160320-02.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The American Zone&#8221;, <em>The Libertarian Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, 2016-03-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascism is actually an economic system, of which &#8220;crony capitalism&#8221;, an illegitimate partnership between government and business, is an excellent example. Known otherwise as corporate socialism or simply corporatism, other eras (Adam Smith\u2018s for instance, in his book Wealth of Nations) have called it Mercantilism. L. Neil Smith, &#8220;The American Zone&#8221;, The Libertarian Enterprise, 2016-03-20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41],"tags":[645,727,457,1382,410],"class_list":["post-34422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-corporatewelfare","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-fascism","tag-lneilsmith","tag-mercantilism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58454,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422\/revisions\/58454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}