Can you give examples?
Also what do you think about the ‘left libertarian’ claim that government intervention is why we have the curent size of businesses and firms today? Is there any truth in this?
Is there any articles or books I should read on this?
Cubicles were a government mandate that I think perhaps began back in the 70s or 60s.
Large roads obviously create incentives for Corp. like walmart, etc. taxes allow some companies to defeat their competitors.
Regulations of virtually anything allow companies to defeat competitors, (meat inspection from the early 1900s, the AMA, the monopoly granted to Blue Cross, the fact that thet FDA is staffed by leaders of pffizer, Boeing as military supplier, penalty caps for BP and ALCOA).
Price subsidies for farms and welfare programs are a friggin boon to Montasano company.
As for the left libertarians, I think that they have a pretty good point about the status quo but I don’t see why corporations can’t get this big on a free market, I suppose that they would be a little smaller but with the fact of having to overcome international obstacles to achieve international objectives, I think there is definitely an incentive to get big.
And finally read rothbard or kolko and esp. the latter’s book The Triumph of Conservatism
Every regulation that is more onerous than it would be if regulation were left to the market, automatically grows the average size of corporations larger than they would be without government intervention. (By creating disproportionate hardships for smaller competitors that would otherwise serve as a competitive check on the larger corporations’ growth.)
Not to mention that the giant companies almost always get regulations altered to benefit them specifically even more.
You only need ask yourself if Big Pharma would be as big if it didn’t cost millions for their small competitors to put a new drug through FDA testing (it may cost Big Pharma companies just as much, but they have the resources for that kind of investment).
Tax-Increment Financing
Military-Industrial Complex
Prison-Industrial Complex
etc