Editing Profiteering (section)

==Overview==
[[Business]] owners may be accused of profiteering when they [[price gouging|raise prices]] during an emergency ([[War profiteering|especially a war]]).<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Hughes | first1 = Solomon | title = War on Terror, Inc: corporate profiteering from the politics of fear | publisher = Verso | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-1844671236 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/waronterrorincco00hugh }}</ref>{{page needed|date=December 2016}} 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]]<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Neuwirth | first1 = Robert | title = Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy | publisher = Random House Digital, Inc. | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-0307906809}}</ref>{{page needed|date=December 2016}} syndicates, for example on [[fuel subsidies]] (see ''[[History of British Airways#2005: Willie Walsh era|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]]'').