Full Idea
Braudel sees capitalism as the 'anti-market': a world of opacity, monopoly, concentration of power and wealth, and the exceptional profits that can be achieved only by escaping the norms of 'economic life'.
Gist of Idea
Capitalism is the anti-market, with opacity, monopolies, powers, exceptional profits and wealth
Source
William Davies (Review of 'The Price is Wrong' by B.Christophers [2024], 24-04-04)
A Reaction
Given all the talk about the wonders of the 'free market' from right-wingers, this passage came as a revelation to me. Capitalists all dream of a monopoly, which is precisely the destruction of a market.
Book Reference
-: 'London Review of Books' [ 0], p.23