politics and business

When the background does not change, we just ignore it. This general principle applies to politics as well.

Businessmen implicitly believe that they operate inside a political vacuum, minding their own economic calculations and playing their sophisticated strategic games. But once the political equilibrium gets destabilised they start complaining that politics is now giving direction to economics.

Of course, the truth is that politics is always giving direction to economics. It is the change itself that creates the pain. Once the new equilibrium is reached, politics gets again forgotten.