{"id":138,"date":"2010-04-07T12:56:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2010\/04\/07\/favoring-small-retailers-can-in-fact-be-enabling-rent-seeking\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:56:06","slug":"favoring-small-retailers-can-in-fact-be-enabling-rent-seeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2010\/04\/07\/favoring-small-retailers-can-in-fact-be-enabling-rent-seeking\/","title":{"rendered":"Favoring Small Retailers can in fact be enabling Rent Seeking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2010\/04\/political-conflict-isnt-about-free-markets.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+%28Matthew+Yglesias%29\">Matthew Yglesias \u00bb Political Conflict Isn\u2019t About Free Markets<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To borrow an idea from Robin Hanson, I think it\u2019s useful to think about political conflict in terms of valorized figures. On the right, you see a lot of valorization of businessmen. On the left, you see a lot of valorization of pushy activists who want to do something businessmen don\u2019t like. Formally, the right is committed to ideas about free markets and the left is committed to ideas about economic equality. But in practice, political conflict much more commonly breaks down around \u201csome stuff some businessmen want to do\u201d vs \u201csome stuff businessmen hate\u201d rather than anything about markets or property rights per se. Consequently, on the left people sometimes fall into the trap of being patsies for rent-seeking mom &amp; pop operators when poor people would benefit more from competition from a corporate bohemoth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias \u00bb Political Conflict Isn\u2019t About Free Markets To borrow an idea from Robin Hanson, I think it\u2019s useful to think about political conflict in terms of valorized figures. On the right, you see a lot of valorization of businessmen. On the left, you see a lot of valorization of pushy activists who want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}