predacious

The author is highly critical, even emotional, in his assessment of liberal economics, in which "a little obscene witch--profitability--has transformed reality into a commodity," hence "one passes from production to exploitation, from creation to predacity, to plunder or to parasitism" (59-74).

It persists in eroding the civil space, constraining the processes of accumulation of power and wealth and in making predacity easier than exploitation" (Bayart, 1993, p.