¿Por qué se le sigue echando la culpa de los fracasos del corporativismo a la economía de mercado?

Hay mucho de mala fe, pero en la mayoría de los casos se trata de ignorancia.

Lo hablamos varias veces por acá. En EE.UU., se suele utilizar a capitalismo como sinónimo de corporativismo. Deberíamos dejar de utilizar terminología marxista y llamar a las cosas por su nombre. En lugar “capitalismo” hablemos de economía de mercado, intercambios voluntarios, etc.

Muy interesante la descripción que hace Phelps del corporativismo. Aplica 100% a lo que se viene haciendo desde hace décadas en Argentina, con algunos muy breves interregnos:

The managerial state has assumed responsibility for looking after everything from the incomes of the middle class to the profitability of large corporations to industrial advancement. This system . . . is . . . an economic order that harks back to Bismarck in the late nineteenth century and Mussolini in the twentieth: corporatism.

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In various ways, corporatism chokes off the dynamism that makes for engaging work, faster economic growth, and greater opportunity and inclusiveness. It maintains lethargic, wasteful, unproductive, and well-connected firms at the expense of dynamic newcomers and outsiders, and favors declared goals such as industrialization, economic development, and national greatness over individuals’ economic freedom and responsibility. Today, airlines, auto manufacturers, agricultural companies, media, investment banks, hedge funds, and much more have at some point been deemed too important to weather the free market on its own, receiving a helping hand from government in the name of the “public good.”