After accusations of cronyism, the UK government defends health secretary Matt Hancock after it emerged he is part owner of a firm along with his sister which won contracts from NHS Wales.
Much of the change is a direct result of the vast expansion of the state through complex subsidies and anti-competitive regulations that invite the sort of cronyism that Mr Meltzer cites as well.
The last long-term shift is less certain and more unwelcome: a further rise in corporate concentration and cronyism, as government cash floods the private sector and big firms grow even more dominant.
It will be all the more important for activists to hold executives to account without them cronyism and corporate sprawl could run rampant in the post coronavirus world
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Since the record of state-run industries over the past century has been one of cronyism, sluggishness and inefficiency, this ought to have given the authors pause.
And for regulatory capture and cronyism and oligarchy, meaning you're going to have the greatest boom demographically, is going to be an increase in billionaires.