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Corporatism vs. Capitalism: Analyzing Rent-Seeking and Regulatory Capture. Julia Cartwright discusses how younger generations often confuse corporatism (entangled government and business) with true capitalism. Rent-seeking involves businesses investing in

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Corporatism vs. Capitalism: Analyzing Rent-Seeking and Regulatory Capture. Julia Cartwright discusses how younger generations often confuse corporatism (entangled government and business) with true capitalism. Rent-seeking involves businesses investing in politics for favors, like healthcare industry lobbying for subsidies. Rent extraction is when politicians threaten costly action to force business compliance (e.g., CAFE standards or tariffs). Solutions include sunsetting subsidies and banning sole-source government procurement.
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More than 70% of our GDP is because we like to push the Amazon button or go shopping or buy new things. We're good at it. I welcome Julia Cartwright, a senior research fellow in law and economics at the American Institute for Economic Research, writing for Civitas Outlook, part of Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.

0:59.3

To identify, yes, the consumers are heroic, but the younger consumers have a very low opinion of the genius of capitalism and have a very high opinion of the less than persuasive socialism. Why?

1:15.1

Because the consumers are suffering being ill-treated by our corporate masters. Julia, a very good

1:22.9

evening to you. You make an excellent case that capitalism is fine, but corporatism is not.

1:30.3

Is there an easy version of corporatism before we get on to rent seeking?

1:34.5

Good evening to you.

1:36.2

Good evening.

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Thank you very much for having me.

1:38.0

The best way to understand corporatism or crony capitalism is thinking about politics and business being intertwined

1:46.7

rather than separate. So as you pointed out, many folks have, especially younger generations,

1:53.5

have a very negative view of what they conceptualize as capitalism. But that isn't the markets

2:00.4

on their own or businesses on their own.

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