Over on my personal blog, I have had two posts looking at profits (here and here). Here I just wanted to flag a specific point.
My problems with our current focus on profit fits within the concerns that I started to outline in my reforming Australia's public policy series: the combination of focus with systemic rigidities.
Profit is a good thing. No profits, the business goes down, the economy suffers. In any market system, there will be businesses that can't make enough money and will go the wall. That's part of the economic adjustment process. But what happens when a focus on short term profits starts building instabilities into the whole system?
My view is that we are at this point now.
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