On Profiteering

On April 22, 2020, the New York Times reported that Jeff Bezos, the founder, CEO, and president of Amazon-and the wealthiest man in the world-has been made $25 billion dollars richer since the beginning of March. On Profiteering is a full-scale attack on profiteering during the pandemic, and an examination of the risks such behaviour poses to both the global economy and to democratic institutions.