In addition to legal reforms there are changes in market regulation pertaining to the state monopolies. |
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By way of contrast, the first-decade mobile cellular market was characterised by monopolies and duopolies. |
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Through their control of vast energy empires, the oil monopolies are in a powerful position to control supplies and thereby jack up prices. |
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In the late 1990s, the industry was abuzz with plans to deregulate the markets and break up public monopolies. |
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Many warned about the consequences of deregulating an industry dominated by giant regional monopolies. |
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So the activists' nightmare of massive biotech monopolies dominating the globe is to an extent a Frankenstein's monster of their own creation. |
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What we actually have are highly managed monopolies that epitomize crony capitalism and insider trading as a way of doing business. |
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Government still attempts this, with its ridiculous post office and public utility monopolies. |
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The old order had been corporative, every organization defining itself by its privileges and monopolies. |
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The company owners, though, became big political givers to city pols, enabling them to maintain their cushy monopolies until now. |
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The revolution had overthrown the brutal domination of feudalism and ended crown monopolies over trade. |
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The pervasiveness of monopolies in the game does not represent the situation in the real world. |
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A key chokehold for the oil monopolies is the refining of crude oil in the United States. |
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Boos and hisses all round because we all know that monopolies are bad because they can charge what they like. |
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Building monopolies by subcontractors from the outside must be eliminated one way or the other. |
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We will privatize utilities and end inefficient regulations and monopolies. |
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This Government has nationalised the industry, and we now have monopolies with State-owned enterprises on a regional basis. |
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And, now they've been made into kind of these big monopolies that are skimming enormous amounts of money. |
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Communications networks have long been considered natural monopolies vital to national commercial and security interests. |
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But in situations not involving either land or natural monopolies, his clear preference was for private enterprise and private ownership. |
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And companies with unique products or monopolies also can raise prices almost at will. |
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The market is slowing, mainly due to the inflated prices that are caused by real estate agency monopolies and high commissions. |
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Working for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Mr Lay became a keen advocate of the liberalisation of gas and electricity monopolies. |
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Tycoons operate monopolies through the blessing of governments, central and regional, and with support from corrupt courts and bureaucrats. |
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The Essential Services Act would also apply to water, gas and other key public services now controlled by private monopolies. |
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State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole. |
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Do we really want to return to the bad old days of state-owned monopolies in the utilities sector? |
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Unfortunately, many of the businesses mooted for privatization are either virtual monopolies or operate in oligopolistic environments. |
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According to the capital market law, listed companies are not allowed to undertake mergers that could lead to monopolies. |
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He would himself use the language of Progressive era reform rhetoric to mold Storrow and those who supported him as men of money, monopolies and trusts. |
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The left has been ceded a monopoly on caring about black people, and monopolies are dangerous. |
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I don't understand all the technical jargon, but do agree with the general gist of maintaining freedom of communication outside the oppression of big business monopolies. |
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It is ruled by a corrupt kleptocracy of aristocrats who use their control of state monopolies and even the tax system to enrich themselves at the public's expense. |
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Therefore, to ensure that markets work effectively, regulation is needed to prevent collective and individual monopolies from operating in restraint of trade. |
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The government retained the monopolies on salt and iron, but it became clear that many of the Confucian literates saw his actions for what they truly were. |
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The financial system actively encourages the rush to monopolies. |
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The Tory government was legally bound to refer the bid to the monopolies and Mergers Commission. |
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American newspapers in most markets are monopolies, which, Evans suggests, takes a bit of fire out of their reporting and writing. |
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His pitch was to lend to the struggling governments of Europe in exchange for monopolies on the production and sale of matches. |
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He says five years after the state owned electricity monopolies were broken up and competition introduced, the electricity market is fast losing ground. |
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In its attempt to raise more revenue from the sale of these enterprises, the government alienated citizens by replacing public monopolies with protected private monopolies. |
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He just resented giving it to the shareholders of privatised monopolies. |
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Whilst privatisation proceeds apace and monopolies are being dismantled, there is clearly a long way to go before a market economy will truly exist here. |
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I am opposed to turning public monopolies into private monopolies. |
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Production was traditionally concentrated in the hands of large state-owned monopolies largely in the extractive, defence, and machine tool industries. |
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State-owned monopolies continued to control electricity and water supply, railways and harbours, broadcasting, air transport, and much steel production. |
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The root cause of public sector inefficiency is the fact that public services are government monopolies which are immune from competitive pressures. |
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Renewable energy technology can end utility monopolies and liberate us from a lifetime of paying monthly power bills, rendering utility power as obsolete as the slide rule. |
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Anyone who knows anything about neoclassical microeconomics knows that consumers are at the mercy of privately-owned monopolies and oligopolies due to the lack of competition. |
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If history is any guide, the democratization promised by Web 2.0 will eventually be succeeded by new monopolies which will have enormous power over our lives. |
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Articles often criticized guilds as creating monopolies and approved of state intervention to remove such monopolies. |
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In the cities, entrepreneurship on a small scale flourished, as restrictive monopolies, privileges, barriers, rules, taxes and guilds gave way. |
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Coke succeeded in establishing the Committee of Grievances, a body chaired by him that abolished a large number of monopolies. |
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Already cultivated in Algarve, the accessibility of Madeira attracted Genoese and Flemish traders keen to bypass Venetian monopolies. |
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Also Nordic kingdoms and England, required passage rates, monopolies on fishing and blocked foreign ships in their neighboring seas. |
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Ironically, competition between colonial powers led to their granting of trade monopolies to the East India Companies. |
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The South Sea Company was a private business corporation set up in London ostensibly to grant trade monopolies in South America. |
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Governments became involved in trade directly through the granting of royal trade monopolies. |
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In Britain, mercantilism faded as the Parliament gained the monarch's power to grant monopolies. |
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Corporate monopolies run rampant in free markets, with endless agency over the consumer. |
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Merchants benefited greatly from the enforced monopolies, bans on foreign competition, and poverty of the workers. |
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In capitalist captive markets, goods are mass produced by legally protected publishing and manufacturing monopolies. |
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European merchants, backed by state controls, subsidies, and monopolies, made most of their profits by buying and selling goods. |
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Efforts are made by government to prevent the creation of monopolies and cartels. |
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Many countries have competition laws that prohibit monopolies and cartels from forming. |
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Rogers, Tarbell's investigations of Standard Oil fueled growing public attacks on Standard Oil and on monopolies in general. |
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Although monopolies may be big businesses, size is not a characteristic of a monopoly. |
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In a free market, monopolies can be ended at any time by new competition, breakaway businesses, or consumers seeking alternatives. |
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Only when companies realized that they could gain power through government did monopolies begin to form. |
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By the 16th century, the English Crown would habitually abuse the granting of letters patent for monopolies. |
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This practice came from the guilds, groups who were controlled by the Crown and held monopolies over particular industries. |
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Crucially, this rendered all past, present and future patents and monopolies null and void. |
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Essentially, this established a wide area in which patents could be granted, on the condition that monopolies lasted no longer than 14 years. |
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This stimulated a vast network of extraction and supply, which formed part of royal monopolies in southern Germany and Austria. |
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Even the economic elite were reluctant to support Somoza, as he had acquired monopolies in industries that were key to rebuilding the nation. |
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Lamoreaux for explaining the steep price falls is to view the involved firms acting as monopolies in their respective markets. |
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Many cities, including New York City, once used it to break up the Democratic Party monopolies on elective office. |
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It will be the first major network that doesn't rely on patching together leased fiber from telecommunication monopolies. |
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There are very few actual unregulated large monopolies or monopsonies in the United States. |
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Joel Klein hates monopolies, but he really loves the private sector. |
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First, the essential facilities doctrine should be applied when the market at hand demonstrates tendencies of natural monopolies. |
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These court-ordered strangleholds such as the Napster injunction create multi-million dollar monopolies for special interests. |
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In addition to Government monopolies, the country's economy has to contend with other oligopolistic companies. |
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According to them, market failures and natural monopolies could be problematic. |
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Merchants attempted to prevent lower crafts and gilds from infringing on their trade, monopolies and political power. |
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He also encouraged invention and new ideas through his patent enforcement and support of infant industry monopolies. |
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As for natural monopolies, opponents of privatization claim that they aren't subject to fair competition, and better administrated by the state. |
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The very existence of the league and its privileges and monopolies created economic and social tensions that often crept over into rivalries between league members. |
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Rome's merchants and independent farmers were turned into landless serfs on the latifundia, the vast land monopolies that Rome's oligarchy accumulated. |
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During the Han and Tang, emperors sometimes instated government monopolies in times of war, and abolished them later when the fiscal crisis had passed. |
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Later, scrupulous rulers would realise the futility of smoking bans and instead turned tobacco trade and cultivation into lucrative government monopolies. |
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Towns saw the growing power of guilds, while on a national level special companies would be granted monopolies on particular trades, like the English wool Staple. |
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After Essex's desertion of his command in Ireland in 1599, Elizabeth had him placed under house arrest and the following year deprived him of his monopolies. |
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This process continued for three centuries, with formal procedures set out in 1561 to issue letters patent to any new industry, allowing monopolies. |
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Regulation of this type has not been limited to natural monopolies. |
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In addition, because of poor quality work, a black market arose for building services and materials that could not be procured from state monopolies. |
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This process continued after Elizabeth I came to the throne, with formal procedures set out in 1561 to issue letters patent to any new industry, allowing monopolies. |
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Offer to index tariffs of natural monopolies might make a make a significant effect in the form of financial results reduction in the companies of the power energy sector. |
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They also cover natural monopolies and networked industries. |
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Even given a string of judicial decisions criticising and overruling such monopolies, James I, Elizabeth I's successor, continued using patents to create monopolies. |
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Critics of the free market have argued that, in real world situations, it has proven to be susceptible to the development of price fixing monopolies. |
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Despite the Committee of Grievances, a body chaired by Sir Edward Coke that abolished a large number of monopolies, a wave of protest occurred at the expansion of the system. |
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Patents evolved from letters patent, issued by the monarch to grant monopolies over particular industries to skilled individuals with new techniques. |
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He established salt and tea monopolies based on Yuan institutions, eliminated corruption, restored minted currency, opened iron foundries, and instituted fish taxes. |
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In the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, the Netherlands urbanised considerably, mostly financed by corporate revenue from the Asian trade monopolies. |
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They have their stored booths in every bazaar, occupy all the principal caravanseries with their merchandize, and entirely control the business of bankerage and monopolies. |
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In many jurisdictions, competition laws restrict monopolies. |
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He fought against powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. |
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Some of the privatised industries, including gas, water, and electricity, were natural monopolies for which privatisation involved little increase in competition. |
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