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With a prize system, innovators are rewarded for new knowledge, but they do not retain a monopoly on its use.
That way, the power of competitive markets can ensure that, once a drug is developed, it is made available at the lowest possible price – not at an inflated monopoly price.
Such monopoly pricing should be ended.
One reason big business was considered a threat at that time was its monopoly power over assets that were crucial to many ordinary Americans.
The fear that big businesses were harming the general welfare by stifling competition – and were politically powerful enough to entrench their monopoly power – allowed reformists from the left and right to find some common ground.
Yet, instead of urging schools and teachers to compete with each other on behalf of students (tomorrow’s workers), many insist on defending teachers’ monopoly over access to education – that is, access to investments in income-boosting human capital.
Just as with the early industrialists, moreover, teacher unions in many countries have enough political clout to resist reforms that erode their monopoly power.
It is time for them to recognize that a powerful monopoly holding those workers back is the one they have been mistakenly fighting to defend.
Prohibiting the Chinese authorities from buying US debt would, of course, be tantamount to imposing capital controls, thereby breaking China’s monopoly on such instruments.
Popper juxtaposed these totalitarian ideologies with another view of society, one which recognizes that no one has a monopoly on the truth; different people have different views and different interests, and there is a need for institutions that allow them to live together in peace.
Ever since it crushed the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the party has vowed not to surrender its political monopoly.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), an unregulated global monopoly, conducts a biannual auction whereby the world’s cities compete against one another to prove their suitability.
SOEs will lose their low-interest loans, subsidized land, monopoly protection, and privileged housing.
Mubarak still commands disproportionate assets: name recognition, a virtual monopoly on state-controlled electronic media and some 85% of the print media.
As the slowdown threatens to impede job creation, undermining the prospects of the millions of people moving to China’s cities each year in search of a more prosperous life, the Chinese Communist Party will struggle to maintain the legitimacy of its political monopoly.
It was both the glue that held society together and a pillar of political power, so maintaining a monopoly over the dissemination of that knowledge was critical to maintaining the authority of Ottoman leaders.
It is also a war of conflicting images, in which both parties claim a monopoly on justice and martyrdom.
Despite controlling the world’s largest gas reserves, Russia’s state-owned monopoly Gazprom is not producing enough for an economy growing at 6% a year.
The Solidarity union that was born in 1980 broke the Communist Party‘s monopoly on power.
But the key point was that the party’s monopoly on power was jettisoned.
In the case of health care, a national monopoly can forestall innovation and provide inadequate care with long waits.
American, British, and French oil companies enjoyed a virtual monopoly of Nigeria’s oil industry.
No wonder, then, that Lee was so much admired by autocrats everywhere who dream of combining their monopoly on power with the creation of great wealth.
In January, for example, Israelis began using its monopoly on fuel supplies to punish Palestinians, a decision condemned the following month by Human Rights Watch.
At a time when the Chinese Communist Party’s political monopoly is increasingly being challenged, Xi will not make that mistake.
Over the next three centuries, as the benefits of instituting a monopoly over money creation became more widely recognized, a slew of central banks were established, one for each politically bounded economy.
Moreover, Arafat contributed to the absence of a legitimate monopoly of force by ignoring the semi-autonomous armed actions of his own Fatah-based militia, as well as the Fatah-based Al–Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, not to mention other groups’ armed militias.
And we will have to engage major companies in a new way, giving them ample incentives and market rewards for success, without allowing them to hold a monopoly on successful technologies that should be widely adopted.
In the coming year, Putin’s big test will be over control of gas monopoly Gazprom, now co-owned by its managers and the state.
Railway Minister Nikolai Aksenenko, who belongs to the oligarchic family, wants to turn the rail system into a monopoly akin to Gazprom, while the St. Petersburg liberals want to divide the rail network into competing private companies.
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