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| Release date | May 2006 |
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It's not quite unregulated. It's actually heavily regulated, but the regulations are just stacked against normal citizens.
Take "A corporation is a person". That's a legal concept that is maintained by the government.
Take "I can copyright something". That's a monopoly on ideas which is defended by the government.
Take "You can't photograph my mass farming". Another heavy regulation.
Or take, of course, the bail-outs themselves -- that's a perfect example of government not letting capitalism go its way, but rather, stepping in.
(An interesting book on the subject: The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. On a related note, by Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.)
That's a big myth, but it's only "capitalism all the way" if it benefits corporations -- things tend to get very pampered, protective and socialist if a regulation helps corporations. Great books on the subject: The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, and Republic, Lost.
This has been happening for 3+ decades. Some good reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Nanny-State-Wealthy-Government/dp/1411693957
https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Since-1980/dp/0521677556
> largely due to deregulation
No. It's as much about regulation (where it benefits corporations) as it is about deregulation (again, where it benefits corporations). Well worth a read., as "free market" is a popular myth held up by those same 1 percent.
> Conservatives are pro-business traditionally. Anything that stands in the way of a business innovating or making a profit is seen as horrible government intervention in the economy.
They like to say so, but don't believe a word of it.
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A People's History of the World
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The Socialist System
The Age of... (1, 2, 3, 4)
Marx for our Times
Essential Works of Socialism
Soviet Century
Self-Governing Socialism (Vols 1-2)
The Meaning of Marxism
The "S" Word (not that good in my opinion)
Of the People, by the People
Why Not Socialism
Socialism Betrayed
Democracy at Work
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The Socialist Party of America (absolute must read)
The American Socialist Movement
Socialism: Past and Future (very good book)
It Didn't Happen Here
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The Enigma of Capital
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
A Companion to Marx's Capital (great book)
After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action
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The Conservative Nanny State
The United States Since 1980
The End of Loser Liberalism
Capitalism and it's Economics (must read)
Economics: A New Introduction (must read)
U.S. Capitalist Development Since 1776 (must read)
Kicking Away the Ladder
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Traders, Guns and Money
Corporation Nation
Debunking Economics
How Rich Countries Got Rich
Super Imperialism
The Bubble and Beyond
Finance Capitalism and it's Discontents
Trade, Development and Foreign Debt
America's Protectionist Takeoff
How the Economy was Lost
Labor and Monopoly Capital
We Are Better Than This
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Spontaneous Order (disagree with it but found it interesting)
Man, State and Economy
The Machinery of Freedom
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You should look at the upward distribution going on in the USA. I recommend The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer.
It is largely accurate.
Quote cartoon: "Lacking government oversight"? Not to defend the tea party, but "big business" in the US is getting a LOT of government push, bail outs, financing. Have a look at the book "The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer".
> You're going to let a single person prevent an entire community from having internet access?
Why are you suggesting I would want that?
The US isn't free market. Corporations get subsidized and protected. Ideas are patented and, for longer and longer terms, copyrighted, another form of government protection. Whole laws are invented to protect legacy corporations. New forms of business and ideas get blocks thrown in their way all the time.
Here's a random start into the subject.
There is plenty of rent seeking regulation that helps big business that libertarians, liberals, and conservatives can all oppose. IP laws, ethanol mandates, the sugar tarriff, drug prohibition, occupational licensing laws, coal scrubber mandates, historic preservation laws, laws that separate commercial from residential buildings, and other zoning laws come to mind.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Ripoff-Business-Government/dp/0471789070
http://www.amazon.com/Unwarranted-Intrusions-Government-Intervention-Marketplace/dp/0471687138/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395588852&sr=1-1&keywords=unwarranted+intrusions
http://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Nanny-State-Wealthy-Government/dp/1411693957/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395588883&sr=1-1&keywords=the+conservative+nanny+state
Good books on how the government redistributes income upward.