Monopoly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos / μονος alone or single + polein / πωλειν , to sell) exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular produc...
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Natural monopoly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In economics, a natural monopoly occurs when, due to the economies of scale of a particular industry, the maximum efficiency of production and distribution is realized through a single supplier. Nat...
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Public utilities: gas, electric, water, cable TV, and local telephone service companies, are often pure monopolies. ... Manufacturing monopolies are virtually nonexistent in nationwide U.S. manufacturing industries. ... Monopolies may be geographic. A small town may have only one airline, bank, etc.
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Who are thought of as Monopolies? ... Many different companies in the past have been accused of being Monopolies, and when this happens they might be told to stop their monopolistic ways, or are told to break up into separate companies.
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In fact, the few monopolies that exist today are largely the fault of government. The postal service, for example, is a pure monopoly, enforced by government laws. You are legally prohibited from starting your own business to deliver letters.
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However, many of the monopolies that exist today are not natural monopolies but politically created monopolies. In the electricity industry, for example, the conventional wisdom is that regulatory oversight was established by governments to protect customers from abuse at the hands of exploitative utility monopolies.
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But neither government regulators nor union bureaucrats will have the slightest impact on the latest merger. They have neither the power nor the desire to oppose the plans of the giant telecommunications monopolies. ... New Today...
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In a nonlinear video world, the near monopolies that exist today in distribution would have much less to protect in terms of carriage and distribution exclusivity, and much more to compete for. We'd actually have an environment that serves consumers and spurs innovation.
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There Are Black Slaves Today ! ... What do they have in their own homelands? - Slavery is rampant in today's black Africa, just as it is throughout the Muslim world. (A Gabonese child slave girl sells ice) ... Today Sufism's greatest stronghold is in Southern Egypt and Sudan. Islamic prosperity was based upon Black as well...
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