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It opposes necessary structural reforms in order to defend its clients’ rent-seeking practices; rejects citizen candidacies in favor of unaccountable party elites; recoils from union modernization, owing to the corporatist practices that it implemented; and refuses to dismantle the monopolies that it established.
Now we face the challenge of extracting the world from the jaws of Internet platform monopolies.
Recognition of the corrosive effect of platform monopolies on competition and innovation is greater in Europe than in the US, but no one has found an effective regulatory strategy.
The challenges posed by Internet platform monopolies require new approaches beyond antitrust enforcement.
With the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, the threat from Internet platform monopolies should be a top concern for attendees.
Public monopolies like Pemex, private monopolies like Telmex and Cemex, labor monopolies like the teachers’ union, media monopolies like Televisa, and the iron political lock the country’s three parties have on every level of electoral representation, are all stronger than before.
It can do this by using its huge and rich public-private monopolies to take over the key industries and economic institutions of former Soviet republics, thereby laying the groundwork for political domination.
On the first day of his second stint as President, Putin signed a decree “On the long-term state economic policy” that stipulated full privatization of all state assets – except natural monopolies, natural resources, and defense assets – before 2016.
Reforming Europe from BelowLook at European history for the past 25 years, and you see that from the late 1970's to the early 1990's the continent was plagued by macroeconomic instability, high unemployment, over-regulated markets--including, importantly, financial markets--unregulated monopolies, and inefficient state-run industries.
So, too, were new digital technologies that freed up information and facilitated communication among ordinary citizens, essentially dismantling the monopolies that many governments held on knowledge and connectivity.
Finally, finance has long had an interest in stable monopolies and oligopolies with high profit margins, while the public has an interest in competitive markets with low margins.
The Sherman Act itself did not change this situation overnight, but, once President Theodore Roosevelt decided to take up the cause, it became a powerful tool that could be used to break up industrial and transportation monopolies.
Modern economies rely not on monopolies, but on competition.
In Italy, former Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government undertook some reforms, but it continued to support unions and corporate monopolies.
People also wondered how genetic technologies might affect social inequality and how countries would guard against the emergence of “corporate-type monopolies.”
We need opportunity and competition, not the growth of powerful monopolies, in order to promote technological progress in a way that does not leave a large number of people behind.
Because patents are essentially government-granted monopolies, they lead to the same inefficiencies and rent-seeking behavior as any other such market distortion.
Breaking up monopolies often yields dramatically lower prices and thus higher living standards for consumers, because the same wage buys a lot more.
Retraining the displaced will be a major challenge for China’s government, as will preventing the major digital players from securing innovation-stifling monopolies.
In a liberalization package just released, the government partially redresses its early mistakes in privatization by clawing back power from the incumbent near monopolies in oil, gas, electricity, and telecoms.
Shattering political monopolies is what democracy is all about.
As a result, elaborate systems of laws are needed to ensure that competition is open and fair, that monopolies and trusts do not destroy competition itself.
State monopolies are sold to friends who then become multibillionaires, like Mexico’s Carlos Slim.
This can be achieved by eliminating privileges for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), such as subsidized capital and monopolies, and by allowing the private sector more freedom.
Often embodying the properties of “natural monopolies,” they are not only shielded from disruption but can also repress and delay beneficial innovations.
He cartelized the oil industry and instituted aggressive antitrust policies to break up monopolies.
Discipline and restructuring must be imposed on the so called natural monopolies: railways, power utilities and, above all, Gazprom - the country’s largest company, and in which there is overwhelming evidence of theft by managers.
But in the Arab world, as everywhere else, this leads to theft, corruption, uncompetitive monopolies, a stifling of enterprise, and, eventually and inevitably, to decline and decay.
There is another dimension to profit-sharing that has received little attention, related to monopolies and competition.
Frankly, when I think of stagnating innovation as an economist, I worry about how overweening monopolies stifle ideas, and how recent changes extending the validity of patents have exacerbated this problem.
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