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cronyism from gripping every area in which the state<br />
intervened. Its example illustrates how government<br />
intrusion in economic affairs creates conditions under<br />
which individuals must divert energy away from productive<br />
activities like cost-cutting and improving production<br />
processes and toward destructive political competition<br />
in order to survive. In this way, the socialism of the Soviet<br />
Union, Cuba, China, and North Korea moved these countries’<br />
economies away from the positive-sum game that<br />
characterizes liberal capitalist economies and embraced<br />
the negative-sum game that permeates crony systems.<br />
30 LIBERALISM AND CRONYISM