Profiteering (business) 1115412 206980591 2008-04-20T22:45:29Z JL-Bot 4773966 removing orphan template as 15 article links exist '''Profiteering''' is a pejorative term for the act of making a [[profit]] by methods considered [[ethics|unethical]]. [[Business]] owners may be accused of profiteering when they [[price gouging|raise prices]] during an emergency ([[War profiteering|especially a war]]). 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]] syndicates and other [[Competition (economics)|anti-competitive]] behaviour, for example on [[fuel subsidies]] (see ''[[British Airways#Price-fixing|British Airways price-fixing allegations]]''), or restricted by industry codes of conduct such as aggressive [[marketing]] of products in the [[third world]] such as [[baby milk]] (see ''[[Nestlé boycott]]''). ==See also== * [[Business ethics]] * [[War profiteering]] * [[Price gouging]] * [[McDojo]] - Profiteering in the [[Martial arts]] [[Category:Business terms]] [[Category:Profit]] [[Category:Microeconomics]] {{microeconomics-stub}}