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Like the chicken, forced to be "programmed" by a wall of televisions, we are all stuck with the billions of programs our monopolistic cable providers choose for us.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has long argued that food security and fair pricing depends on markets that are free from monopolistic tendencies.
At risk is the emerging diversity of opinion and reporting that has begun to invigorate the region’s traditionally staid and monopolistic media industry.
Other approaches are also possible: tightening up patent laws or imposing price controls for monopolistic industries, such as pharmaceuticals, as many market economies have done.
First, each party wishes to reassert monopolistic control over the state rather than accept that democratic competition and alternation of power now constitute permanent elements of Paraguay’s political regime.
Another fundamental communist tenet has been the concentration of industrial production in a small number of gigantic monopolistic enterprises.
In a World Bank paper, Anette Brown, Barry Ickes and Randi Ryteman have shown that by US definitions only 0.2 percent manufacturing output is monopolistic.
Similarly, the monopolistic structure was alleged to render monetary policy ineffective.
Finally, the monopolistic domestic energy sector must be regulated in fact, not just on paper.
Network industries like telecoms, gas, electricity, and water tend to become monopolistic or oligopolistic if left to market forces alone.
Instead, the bogeyman of financial globalization is used as an excuse for continuing to coddle inefficient and monopolistic domestic financial systems.
People are increasingly angry at giant corporations’ perceived monopolistic power.
Some industries suffer from counterproductive and ill-conceived regulation; others are ailing as a result of monopolistic behavior by dominant firms, or because they face a lack of effective competition and transparency in utilities and financial services.
Their perspective clashes with that of people who care more about distributional issues, have different (often shorter) time horizons, and are wary of monopolistic behavior.
An SOE’s monopolistic or oligopolistic position at home no longer ensures its competitiveness, particularly in the context of disruptive new technologies that cross borders.
It was never actually a cartel, possessing monopolistic market power.
The remaining large state-owned banks and enterprises then became profitable, thanks largely to their monopolistic positions, which allowed them to be listed on the Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Shenzhen stock exchanges.
Not only does it strengthen monopolistic trends and erode fair and transparent competition among firms; it also deprives governments of the money needed to sustain the public goods – education, health care, infrastructure, the rule of law – upon which firms rely.
But globalization and technological progress, by making it easier to match supply and demand, will make such monopolistic behavior harder to maintain in the future.
Russia’s foreign policy is focused on the interests of its state-dominated corporations, notably Gazprom, which has concluded agreements with many foreign countries and companies for monopolistic deliveries.
Ukraine’s industries need to modernize, not become more addicted to cheap gas, and gas transit will become almost as monopolistic as gas supply – a dismal prospect, given past cut-offs of gas supplies between Russia and Europe.
The rise and monopolistic behavior of the giant American Internet platform companies is contributing mightily to the US government’s impotence.
Europe undoubtedly needs Russian gas, but fears that this gives Russia a monopolistic stranglehold over Europe are exaggerated.
But, in the long run, the real sector would probably suffer from monopolistic rents, inadequate competition, and a lack of innovation.
Europeans should subject Russian investments in EU markets to greater scrutiny and use competition law to launch investigations into monopolistic practices and money laundering for existing investments.
It is more feasible to diversify the supply chain, albeit incrementally, by importing gas from distant producers rather than from monopolistic suppliers next door.
By this simple reasoning, legislators and judges must rein in monopolistic “despoilers” by imposing heavy fines, or by breaking them up, as has happened many times throughout history.
Price caps were designed to overcome a serious shortcoming of earlier forms of regulation which tried to prevent excessive monopolistic profits by imposing a ceiling on what firms were permitted to earn.
It seems plausible that the difference between these two regimes can be explained by the breakdown of OPEC power in 1985, owing to North Sea and Alaskan oil development, causing a shift from monopolistic to competitive pricing.
This record points to $50 as a possible demarcation line between the monopolistic and competitive regimes.