Teel’s Reviews > The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? > Status Update

I cannot recommend this book, unless you're trying to profile the insanity of the modern Friedmanite.

Central ridiculous idea here: "…markets are not to blame when gov'ts fail to properly regulate them." Total faith in free markets = fail.

&here is where the author advocates not only a huge military-industrial complex, but its use to wage worldwide wars over energy.

On this page the author literally describes "free market capitalism" as his religion, gospel to be preached to the world.

Also problematic is the author's belief that companies are valid political actors, more important than citizens & government officials.

It is the author's belief that political goals never serve the public welfare that seems central to his fear of "state capitalism".

One more try to get through this. It's painful. Full of assumptions about things which are either unproven or flat-out lies.

Due back at the library tomorrow. Better try to slog through the rest of this dreck.

When corporations do the same things the author complains about governments doing, he says it's a good thing. Double-standard, much?

Picking this up again, even though it's full of empty rhetoric and endemic self-contradiction.