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Will cryptocurrencies usurp their role as monopoly suppliers of money?
A state’s monopoly on the use of force is justified if citizens can rely on it to ensure their security.
By suppressing internal rivals and absorbing their assets, the regime created a dual monopoly.
Can Putin’s dual monopoly survive them?
India’s current policies allow drugs to be sold at a small fraction of the monopoly prices commanded by patent holders.
To take just one example, eliminating the monopoly that notaries public hold in countries like France and Italy would substantially decrease the costs of buying and selling homes, decrease the cost of housing, and make it less costly for workers to move to where the jobs are.
Cross-shareholdings that reinforce monopoly power will be strictly limited in these sectors as well.
Such was the confidence in the Conservatives' political monopoly that, after the last elections, many commentators doubted whether a Labour government would ever be returned to office.
The “Begin Doctrine,” Israel’s preventive-strike strategy for maintaining a regional monopoly on nuclear weapons, has not led to fewer rocket attacks from Israel’s Iranian-backed foes.
The concept was further developed by Karl Popper in his famous book "The Open Society and its Enemies" where he showed that the open society may also be threatened by universal ideas if they claim a monopoly of the truth; but the problems of the region are best understood in terms of Bergson's formulation.
By showing that the United States has lost its monopoly on the unilateral use of force, and by invading an American ally – which even the Soviet Union never dared – Russia blatantly challenged the Pax Americana that emerged from the US victory in the Cold War.
Indeed, one benefit of the European Commission's rule that some decisions must be unanimous is that its impedes the exercise of monopoly power, thus reducing the risk that centralized authority will be used against markets.
Meanwhile, the Right has become increasingly complacent and arrogant of its monopoly on power.
By contrast, an intellectual property regime rewards innovators by creating a temporary monopoly power, allowing them to charge far higher prices than they could if there were competition.
Indeed, once established, a monopoly can use its market power to squelch competitors, as Microsoft so amply demonstrated in the case of the Netscape Web browser.
The need to prevent excessive monopoly power has led anti-trust authorities to require compulsory licensing (as the US government did with the telephone company AT&T).
Opposition parties found their feet, and the PDP’s power monopoly was finally broken – but not obliterated.
The idea was idiotic (the American government, which holds a monopoly on issuing the world’s leading reserve currency, has nothing to “renegotiate”).
Moreover, the products that foreign-invested joint ventures produce usually enjoy monopoly prices in China, a benefit that weakens the American argument further.Still, China’s leaders should not be tone deaf.
Moreover, the products that foreign-invested joint ventures produce usually enjoy monopoly prices in China, a benefit that weakens the American argument further.
As a result, Microsoft cannot extract anything close to its full monopoly rents unless it sells upgrades.
After all, even though Microsoft has a monopoly of primary sales of its software, copies sold in 2007 compete with those sold in 2006.
Likewise, the intellectual property protections might have established a 12-year monopoly on the data that US pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies compile on new drugs (particularly biologics), thereby impeding competition from lower-cost generic versions.
The state then turns into a monopoly seller, and thus an enemy of its own society.
The CCP’s monopoly of public moral authority is long gone, and now its monopoly of political power is at risk as well.
And the current regulatory environment increasingly allows for large corporations to wield power without accountability, resulting in higher monopoly rents and greater bargaining power.
The same could unfold in China, where the Communist Party is increasingly beholden to the military for retaining its monopoly on power.
But a monopoly of production need not mean a monopoly of income, as long as the shares in each company are widely held.
But those profits are the result of their monopoly status and massive state investment, which brings lower returns than private-sector investment.
That is because we have created a patent system that gives innovators a temporary monopoly over what they create, which encourages them to hoard their knowledge, lest they help a competitor.
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