Carney: Building the Free-Market Case Against Big Business

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Carney: Building the Free-Market Case Against Big Business

Matthew Mitchell | Jul 08, 2012

This excerpt originally appeared in The Examiner on July 8, 2012.

And now academia's free-market players are getting in on the game, beginning to rebuild the intellectual infrastructure to argue against corporatism. George Mason University's Mercatus Center this week is kicking off a series of papers on cronyism and business-government collusion. "The Pathology of Privilege: The Economic Consequences of Government Favoritism," written by Mercatus senior research fellow Matt Mitchell, is the first installment.