The problem may not be with how markets should or do work, but with our political system, which has failed to ensure that markets are competitive, and has designed rules that sustain distorted markets in which corporations and the rich can (and unfortunately do) exploit everyone else.
O que temos observado – estagnação de salários e aumento da desigualdade, mesmo quando a riqueza cresce – não reflecte as manobras de uma economia normal, mas daquilo que eu chamo de “capitalismo ersatz”.