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All of these citizens, united, are forming a web, a great archipelago of power that allows us to bypass brokenness and monopolies of control.
They busted open Mexico's smothering monopolies.
And institutions are going to come under an increasing degree of pressure, and the more rigidly managed, and the more they rely on information monopolies, the greater the pressure is going to be.
No longer putting society at the service of art, and much less at the services of monopolies of the elite, but instead art at the service of society, at the service of the weakest, at the service of the children, at the service of the sick, at the service of the vulnerable, and at the service of all those who cry for vindication through the spirit of their human condition and the raising up of their dignity.
The natural tendency for monopolies and oligopolies to arise needs to be constrained by regulations.
The so-called Gref Program (named after former Minister of the Economy German Gref) foresaw many of the reforms that are vitally needed – privatization, deregulation, accession to the World Trade Organization, and reform of the government, natural monopolies, and social security.
Natural monopolies are sometimes economically desirable, and it is legislators, not judges, who should decide whether and when they are to be permitted.
Mexico is trapped by a dense network of rent-seekers and monopolies in sectors that are crucial for economic growth, including telecommunications, energy, transportation, and financial services.
The results have become increasingly obvious and painful: an economy that has suffered more severely in the global crisis than its neighbors to the south; a rent-seeking business elite that is unaccustomed to competition; public and private monopolies that no one seems to have the political will to dismantle; and corporatist pacts that siphon off public resources to unproductive unions, thwarting productivity and growth.
At the same time, governments must upgrade competition policy to protect against the emergence of global monopolies.
To be sure, Trump has eviscerated the Environmental Protection Agency (which has helped coal mining), softened financial oversight (great for bank stocks), and has shown little interest in anti-trust enforcement (a welcome development for tech monopolies like Amazon and Google).
Seattle, for example, has deregulated its transportation and hospitality sectors, challenging the city’s taxi and hotel monopolies.
These firms often benefit from intellectual-property monopolies, reinforced by free-trade agreements designed to strengthen corporate power.
The problem is not that free trade has led to too much global competition, but rather that it has enabled a few companies to secure monopolies or near-monopolies.
These suicides are most frequent where farmers grow cotton, and appear directly linked to the presence of seed monopolies.
These giant corporations have begun to control local seed companies through buyouts, joint ventures, and licensing arrangements, leading to seed monopolies.
Seed scarcity is directly caused by seed monopolies, which have as their ultimate weapon a “terminator” seed that is engineered for sterility.
The creation of seed monopolies is based on the deregulation of seed corporations, including giving them oversight over bio-safety.
The creation of seed monopolies, and with them crushing debts to a new species of moneylender – the agents of the seed and chemical companies – has taken a high human toll as well.
Opaque and unfair delineation and allocation of land rights in China, together with state monopolies and burdensome bureaucracies, create distortions that give rise to corruption and inequities.
Oil and gas monopolies continued to get stronger.
When the new anti-monopoly committee was first established in Russia, it began its life by making a list of potential monopolies it wanted to regulate, which included Russia's largest industrial enterprises, but also many bakeries, shops and bathhouses that it claimed were local monopolies.
The Europeans and Japanese have their own monopolies – over the IMF and the Asian Development Bank, respectively – and the Chinese have created their own with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Similarly, EU competition policy has stood firm for many years against monopolies and abuse of dominant market positions.
Poland introduced massive competition by dismantling monopolies and opening its economy to the world.
Everyone acknowledges that the market requires rules in order to avoid deformations such as monopolies and oligopolies.
But monopolies of wealth are just as pernicious.
The final holdout against the raters will be services for which customers have no choice, typically monopolies or government agencies, such as airports.
However the alleged production monopolies were used by state enterprise managers as an argument against liberalization of prices and trade, and they often won.
State-owned commercial banks account for half the financial system; all large companies are State monopolies, bureaucratically staffed and poorly managed.
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