The Age of Fraud: the Link Between Capitalism and Profiteering by Deception
▻https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/26/the-age-of-fraud-the-link-between-capitalism-and-profiteering-by-decep
I want to make a final point about those who favour the “greed” explanation for fraud. The popular and often used ‘it’s greed’ explanation is in my view only the Mickey Mouse version of thinking about causalities when it comes to fraud in capitalism. If you think you can explain and understand fraud in its many versions with sole or main reference to greed, then you are adopting the position that many of those with political and social power put in front of us in their public utterances and debates. You are adopting the position of our rulers and overlords, and what one might call the “science of the establishment”. How analytically useful can that be?