Economic analysis reveals reduced productive entrepreneurship and increased uncreative profiteering in business environments facing cronyism, highlighting substantial barriers to market innovation.
Favoritism may make it easier to get things done, especially in difficult business environments.But as cronyism increases, productive entrepreneurship falls and more entrepreneurial activity shifts toward profiteering without creating value.
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