Once in a while capitalism has to be rescued from the depredations of, well, capitalists. Unconstrained, enterprise curdles into monopoly, innovation into rent-seeking. Today’s swashbuckling “disrupters” set up tomorrow’s cosy cartels. Capitalism works when someone enforces competition; and successful capitalists do not much like competition.
有时候,我们必须把资本主义从资本家的掠夺中解救出来。在缺少约束的情况下,企业变成了垄断机构,创新变成了寻租。今天传奇的“颠覆者”,设立了明天舒适的卡特尔组织。资本主义在有竞争的情况下能够良好运行;可是成功的资本家不太喜欢竞争。
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