Bazsites.com Monopolies And Oligopolies
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- 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.
- Government Monopoly - Your government is a kind of monopoly, too, with all the problems of any other monopoly. What should be done about it?
- Microsoft Is Building New Monopolies - Critics say that technological tie-ins, proprietary interfaces, and more integration are creating a monopoly in networking. Tech Web story.
- 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.
- Bringing Consumer Choice to Electricity - Position paper by Tom DeLay arguing that government-mandated monopoly production and pricing for electricity be ended.
- 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.
- Answering the Monopoly Apologists - Explains how we reason in an intelligent and calm manner with those whose credulous acceptance of Microsoft's crafty excuses leads them to question our fairness and common sense.
- Is Microsoft bad? - The Red Herring claims Microsoft is a monopoly, and this is GOOD for you...
- USA Today - Microsoft loses showdown in Houston - Microsoft's Office is used on 94% of America's office PCs. But Houston is embracing another set of software, SimDesk, and even giving it to thousands of residents and businesses. The city's moves could have a profound impact on the Microsoft monopoly.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Microsoft the Monopoly - Argues that Bill Gates's enemies may have formed a circular firing squad.
Wikipedia Articles
- Australian referendum, 1919 (Monopolies) - Constitution Alteration (Nationalisation of Monopolies) 1919 sought to extend the government's power to legislate monopolies. The question was put to a referendum in the Australian referendum, 1919.
- Australian referendum, 1913 (Monopolies) - Constitution Alteration (Nationalisation of Monopolies) 1912 sought to give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws with respect to monopolies.
- Statute of Monopolies 1623 - England's Statute of Monopolies of 1623 (21 Jac. 1, c.
- Monopolies of knowledge - According to communication theorist Harold Innis, monopolies of knowledge are created in the atmosphere of hostility between time-biased and space-biased media, wherein one tradition marginalizes the other. In this context, the term "knowledge" refers to all information and data in addition to the products of literacy and science.
- Public utility - A public utility (usually just utility in British English) is a company that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities often involve natural monopolies, and as a result are often government monopolies, or if privately owned, the sectors are specially regulated by a Public Utilities Commission.