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Crony capitalism, sometimes also called simply cronyism, is a pejorative term used in political discourse to describe a situation in which businesses profit from a close relationship with state power, either through an anti-competitive regulatory environment, direct government largesse, and/or corruption. Examples given for crony capitalism include obtainment of permits, government grants,[1] tax breaks,[1] or other undue influence from businesses over the state's deployment of public goods, for example, mining concessions for primary commodities or contracts for public works.[2] In other words, it is used to describe a situation where businesses thrive not as a result of free enterprise, but rather collusion between a business class and the political class.[3][4]
Wealth is then accumulated not merely by making a profit in the market, but through profiteering by rent seeking using this monopoly or oligopoly. Entrepreneurship and innovative practices which seek to reward risk are stifled since the value-added is little by crony businesses[citation needed], as hardly anything of significant value is created by them[citation needed], with transactions taking the form of trading[clarification needed]. Crony capitalism spills over into the government, the politics, and the media,[5] when this nexus distorts the economy and affects society to an extent it corrupts public-serving economic, political, and social ideals.[6][clarification needed]
^ abKristof, Nicholas (March 27, 2014). "A Nation of Takers?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
^Aligica, Paul Dragos; Tarko, Vlad (2014). "Crony Capitalism: Rent Seeking, Institutions and Ideology". Kyklos. 67 (2): 156–176. doi:10.1111/kykl.12048. S2CID 154030054.
^Rubin, Paul H. (2016). "Crony Capitalism". Supreme Court Economic Review. 23 (1): 105–120. doi:10.1086/686474.
^The Discovery that Business Corrupts Politics: A Reappraisal of the Origins of Progressivism, by McCormick, Richard. 1981. The American Historical Review, Vol. 86, No. 2 (Apr. 1981), pp. 247–74.
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