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  2. Monopoly - Wikipedia

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    A monopoly has the power to set prices or quantities although not both. [37] A monopoly is a price maker. [38] The monopoly is the market [39] and prices are set by the monopolist based on their circumstances and not the interaction of demand and supply. The two primary factors determining monopoly market power are the company's demand curve ...

  3. 12 Most Famous Monopolies Of All Time

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    11. Thurn and Taxis Mail. The private company operated postal service back in the 1800s and enjoyed a monopoly on postal services. The company's dominance came to an end after Prussian victory ...

  4. Market power - Wikipedia

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    The emergence of oligopoly market forms is mainly attributed to the monopoly of market competition, i.e., the market monopoly acquired by enterprises through their competitive advantages, and the administrative monopoly due to government regulations, such as when the government grants monopoly power to an enterprise in the industry through laws ...

  5. Government-granted monopoly - Wikipedia

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    In economics, a government-granted monopoly (also called a "de jure monopoly" or "regulated monopoly") is a form of coercive monopoly by which a government grants exclusive privilege to a private individual or firm to be the sole provider of a good or service; potential competitors are excluded from the market by law, regulation, or other mechanisms of government enforcement.

  6. Column: Yes, Amazon is a near-monopoly. Dismantling it will ...

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    The company's public response to the lawsuit is that it would result in "fewer products to ... creates a higher risk that the firm will generate monopoly power" than discounting in physical stores ...

  7. Bell System - Wikipedia

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    The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983.

  8. Apple urges judge to end US smartphone monopoly case

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    "The government has failed to plausibly allege that Apple has monopoly power," said Apple lawyer Devora Allon. Prosecutors are expected to say the company locks users in and keeps competition out ...

  9. United States v. Microsoft Corp. - Wikipedia

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    Judge Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, holding that Microsoft's dominance of the x86-based personal computer operating systems market constituted a monopoly, and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to that monopoly, including applications from Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks, Linux, and ...