Monopoly
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Each major power knows that if
monopoly
control is threatened in one sphere, then it is threatened in all spheres, so they hang together to avoid being hanged separately.
But as China’s society progressively emancipated itself from direct state control – with the notable exception of sectors viewed by the CPC as crucial to maintaining its
monopoly
on power – citizens increasingly appealed to the law for protection against arbitrary administrative interference and to limit the bureaucracy’s discretionary powers.
Our mission was to create competition for Network Solutions, the
monopoly
player at the time, but we did so only in part.
Indeed, it has already created a detailed strategy to cut household gas consumption by more than half, with the goal of dispersing the corrupt gas
monopoly
of Naftogaz and ending Ukraine’s energy dependence on Russia.
The near
monopoly
of power once enjoyed by sovereign entities is being eroded.
(Even President Aliyev groomed his son for power by installing him as vice-president of SOCAR, the vastly lucrative state oil monopoly.)
With the exception of a few guerrilla groups, organized crime is the only strategic actor in the region that has the capacity to dispute the state’s claim to a
monopoly
on the legitimate use of force.
Could the restoration of America’s international reputation turn out to be bad for Europe, by eroding its new
monopoly
on representing Western values and calling it back to its hard power duties?
Many services remain inefficient, because they are either in the domain of an archaic public administration or enjoy
monopoly
rents created by regulatory barriers.
But while a press
monopoly
in its pure form does not exist, oligopoly prevails in most countries.
The settlement between Ukraine and Russia’s state-owned gas monopoly, Gazprom, is intolerable because Ukraine’s energy future has been placed in the hands of RosUkrEnergo, a criminal canker on the body of our state gas corporation.
During my premiership, my government sought to investigate RosUkrEnergo – to discover who precisely its owners are, how it gained a virtual
monopoly
on the import of Central Asian gas, and where its profits go.
Typically, the public sector must enter into contractual agreements with private firms not only to build the infrastructure, but also to operate it as a regulated
monopoly
or on a concession basis.
Gazprom is buying up oil (Sibneft), gas, and power companies at knockdown prices, reinforcing its
monopoly.
As late as 1984, when an MP rose to protest the frequent telephone breakdowns and the generally woeful performance by a public-sector monopoly, the then communications minister replied in a lordly manner.
Yet the top priority for the leader of a fragmented state is to gain and consolidate a
monopoly
on the legitimate use of lethal force.
The EU began life as a cartel of heavy industries determined to manipulate prices and redistribute
monopoly
profits through a bureaucracy located in Brussels.
But, for Khamenei, nuclear concessions might also undermine his
monopoly
over domestic politics.
As happened recently with one antibiotic, CEOs will say that they are serving shareholders by letting prices rise to whatever the market will bear and abusing intellectual-property rights to extract
monopoly
rents.
But they successfully resisted the creation of a political union, which is predicated on a central state with a joint army and
monopoly
on the use of military force.
Deripaska has acquired a
monopoly
of Russia's aluminum and bus production.
A separate US legal case has underscored one of the main dangers of patent-driven
monopoly
power: corruption.
Such regimes would limit poor countries’ access to the knowledge that they need for their development – and would deny life-saving generic drugs to the hundreds of millions of people who cannot afford the drug companies’
monopoly
prices.
But unbalanced intellectual-property regimes result in inefficiencies – including
monopoly
profits and a failure to maximize the use of knowledge – that impede the pace of innovation.
There would still be a need for regulation, especially where
monopoly
or near-monopoly is involved.
Under the guise of democratic verbiage and a facade of democratic institutions, Tudjman promoted the
monopoly
of his nationalist party/movement, the HDZ.
This was not a case of mere nationalism but of a class
monopoly
fearing competition from outside.
The Commission retains a
monopoly
on proposing new legislation, the character of which is heavily influenced by the president.
In 2010, China exploited its
monopoly
on the global production of vital rare-earth minerals to inflict commercial pain on Japan and the West through an unannounced export embargo.
The country needs to confront what he and others have called “white
monopoly
capital.”
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