You might notice that the deregulation of the late 1970s was about removing government imposed barriers-to-entries for new firms. But what what we see here are large firms using standardization and coordination alongside various slotting fee style programs to create private-market barriers-to-entries that exclude smaller vendors. The first version is created by the government and thus an enemy of neoliberals everywhere; the second results from the market and private agents and is passed over in silence because there isn’t any language in the neoliberal lexicon to even discuss it.
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Oil for Nothing:US Holds On Humanitarian SuppliesIraq: 1997-2001
the good book and other cultural artifacts