Society Issues Economic Monopolies and Oligopolies
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- The Arthritic Hand of Oligopoly - A few huge corporations control many markets and industries, to the detriment of society. This is an analysis of the problem.
- Bringing Consumer Choice to Electricity - Position paper by Tom DeLay arguing that government-mandated monopoly production and pricing for electricity be ended.
- GATA and LeMetropole Campaign - Extensive multi-year research has led the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) to the conclusion that the gold market is being overtly manipulated; and that the relationship of available physical gold to outstanding gold loans poses a serious risk to the U.S. and global financial systems.
- Government Monopoly - Your government is a kind of monopoly, too, with all the problems of any other monopoly. What should be done about it?
- Government School Monopoly May Fall of Its Own Weight - The seeds of liberty were planted in fertile soil in 18th-century America. Since then, the American Experiment has encouraged liberty and prosperity. But it also has been overrun by the vine-like spread of government intervention into fields like education.
- Oligopoly, by Robert W. McChesney - A few gigantic mega-corporations own almost all of the popular media sources, giving them control over most of what you can see and hear outside of the Internet.
- Postmaster General Foresees End to Mail Monopoly - The post office monopoly on delivering letters will fade away but the agency will maintain a secure place in America, former Postmaster General Marvin Runyon predicted.
- Power Elites & Monopoly Power - This article deals with exploitative monopolies, their causes and cure and with such ideas as laissez-faire economics, monopoly, regulations, and socialism.
- School Choice Would Break the Education Monopoly - What are American taxpayers getting for all those dollars spent on public education? Not nearly enough, according to education analysts.
- Teachers' Organizations Seek to Break Education Union Monopoly - Monopolies are bad, and that includes union monopolies like the one in education...but some organizations are struggling to give teachers more choice.
- Union Corruption: Why It Happens, How to Combat It - Why are so many unions so corrupt? Because laws grant them a monopoly on people's jobs...
- Egomania vs. Merger-Mania in the Media Biz - Personality and management in media conglomerates. From Business Week online. (October 7, 1999)
- Cato Institute - Intel's Sell Out - How Intel betrayed the information community when it settled with the US Federal Trade Commission. (March 26, 1999)
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