Profiteering (business)
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Profiteering is a pejorative term for the act of making a profit by methods considered unethical.[1]
Business owners may be accused of profiteering when they raise prices during an emergency (especially a war).[2] The term is also applied to businesses that play on political corruption to obtain government contracts.
Some types of profiteering are illegal, such as price fixing[3] syndicates, for example on fuel subsidies (see British Airways price-fixing allegations), and other anti-competitive behaviour. Some are restricted by industry codes of conduct, e.g. aggressive marketing of products in the Third World such as baby milk (see Nestlé boycott).
Types of profiteering
Laws
- UK: Chapter 1 of the Competition Act 1998
- Germany: § 291 StGB (Criminal Code) - up to 10 years jail maximum penalty
See also
- Hoarding (economics)
- Business ethics
- War profiteering
- Price gouging
- Product sabotage
- Rent seeking
- Supracompetitive pricing
- Ticket scalping
- Usury
Example cases
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