TIA MARE EBDANE
Does competition ruin business ethics or do business ethics impede competitive advantage? This question is often asked given that the free market economy has morphed into what we now call the neo-liberal economic structure, the salient features of which include privatization of social services, deregulation of key industries, and the liberalization of economies. The spirit that moves the hidden hands of the free market is competition—the unfettered movement of goods, services and ideas with the least possible intervention from state apparatuses.