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	Monopoly, by George J. Stigler: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Monopolies that exist independent of government support are likely to be due to smallness of markets (the only druggist in town) or to rest upon temporary leadership in innovation (the Aluminum Company of America until World War II).
		It takes years before a monopoly practice is identified, and more years to reach a decision; the antitrust case that led to the breakup of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company began in 1974 and was still under judicial administration in 1991.
		The main kind of monopoly that is both persistent and not caused by the government is what economists call a "natural" monopoly.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/Monopoly.html (2376 words)

	Monopoly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monopolies are characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods.
		Monopolies are often distinguished based on the circumstances under which they arise; the broadest distinction is between monopolies that are the result of government intervention and those that arise without it e.g.
		A local monopoly is a monopoly of a market in a particular area, usually a town or even a smaller locality: the term is used to differentiate a monopoly that is geographically limited within a country, as the default assumption is that a monopoly covers the entire industry in a given country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monopoly (2969 words)

	Monopoly - Price and Output under a Pure Monopoly
		The firm is making abnormal "monopoly" profits (or economic profits) shown by the yellow shaded area.
		The gain in profits compared to the original price and output is shown by the light blue shaded area.
		Not all monopolies are guaranteed profits - there can be occasions when the costs of production are greater than the average revenue a monopolist can charge for their products.
	www.tutor2u.net /economics/content/topics/monopoly/monopoly_profits.htm (710 words)

	Overheads Chpt.11
		The demand curve for the monopoly is the demand curve for the industry -- since the monopoly controls the output of the entire industry -- and the industry demand curve is downward sloping.
		This loss of consumers' surplus is called the "deadweight loss" (meaning the monopoly profits are not enough to offset it) or the "welfare triangle" and is a measure of the waste due to monopoly restriction of output.
		Monopoly provides an important example of an exception to the "fundamental theorem of microeconomics," in that there is not enough competition to push the price down to the supply-demand level.
	william-king.www.drexel.edu /top/prin/txt/Monch/Mon.html (2870 words)

	Monopoly
		A monopoly firm is one that produces the entire market supply of a particular good or service.
		In monopoly, average costs are not necessarily at or near a minimum.
		In monopoly, economic profits are at a maximum.
	people.morehead-st.edu /fs/t.creahan/ch7monopoly.htm (1320 words)

	Rent Seeking and the Social Costs of Monopoly
		Hence monopoly profits, rates of return and the associated deadweight loss are all underestimated.
		The cost of maintaining a monopoly may also be difficult to measure, for example an inefficient state monopoly may exist which would perform more efficiently if exposed to the rigours of the marketplace.
		In the era of a regulated monopoly position being allocated on the basis of lobbying influence, the expenses are socially wasteful.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /local/JUNK/econrev/ser/html/rent.html (1912 words)

	Monopoly
		The monopoly profits (light blue in the graph) are the difference between price ($55) and average total cost ($44.44) times the number of units sold.
		These monopoly profits provide the incentive to invest in the research and development required to create the new drug.
		The monopoly quantity is less than the competitive quantity for markets with the same cost and demand structure.
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /courses/econ101-dl/lecture-monopoly.html (1310 words)

	Lecture : Monopoly
		In a monopoly as in a perfectly competitive industry, positive profits and losses are signals for resources to flow into, and out of, respectively, the industry.
		If monopoly profits are to persist in the long run, the entry of new firms must be prevented by effective entry barriers.
		A monopoly can arise in a market where there are many firms — if the firms agree to cooperate with one another and act as a single firm.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~alex/EC202H/lec14.html (1427 words)

	Profits, by Lester C. Thurow: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Their search for profits is guided by the famous "invisible hand" of capitalism: the highest profits are to be found in producing the goods and services that potential buyers most want.
		Profits from such "imperfections" certainly exist, but here again they are not a large fraction of total profits.
		After tax, corporate profits for nonfinancial corporations have ranged from over 9 percent of the GNP produced by nonfinancial corporations in boom years in the sixties and seventies to less than 5 percent in the recession of the early eighties.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/Profits.html (1441 words)

	Chapter 10 Monopoly
		Monopoly profits are shown as the area of the rectangle P*EAC in Figure 10.1.
		These profits are a return to the factor that forms the basis of the monopoly.
		However, as with the Navajo blanket monopoly, the profits of the low-income Navajo are coming from the more wealthy tourists.
	www.k-state.edu /economics/ramesh/E520CHP10.HTM (2345 words)

	TOPIC 6 Monopoly, Imperfect Competition, and Oligopoly
		A pure monopoly would be an industry comprising a single firm, instead of the "large number" of firms which is characteristic of perfect competition.
		His analysis of monopoly demonstrated that the real social costs of monopoly were probably quite modest, amounting in the US case to only some 0.1 to 1 per cent of the total value of output in the American economy in the 1920s.
		Monopoly profits, he seemed to think, are more like prizes, less important for what they confer on a few lucky winners than as an incentive to encourage many to seek success and in the process advance productivity and the well-being of all.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~reak/eco100/100_6.htm (5159 words)

	Chapter 10—Monopoly and Competition (continued)
		Many monopoly-price theorists have declared that establishment of the monopoly price means that the monopolist is able to attain permanent “monopoly profits.” This is then contrasted with “competitive” profits and losses, which, as we have seen, disappear in the evenly rotating economy.
		To use such terminology is to misconceive the nature of “profit” and “loss.” Profits and losses are purely the results of entrepreneurial activity, and that activity is the consequence of the uncertainty of the future.
		Under the analysis of monopoly price, then, there cannot be, in the evenly rotating system, any such thing as “monopoly profits”; there are only specific monopoly income gains to owners of labor or land factors.
	www.mises.org /rothbard/mes/chap10c.asp (7597 words)

	Monopoly Profits and Net Neutrality
		Perhaps they wanted to be the only one to be able to sell silk, or the only one to trade with a foreign nation, or their association to be the only people allowed to work as masons, or to create hats, or practically anything else you can name.
		Pushing to a monopoly (or more commonly, an oligopoly) situation in any good or service with reasonable demand does tend to drive up profit, but it is far more important that it protects the revenue stream.
		And that is what the Telcos want – monopoly profits from people who, if they want to have an internet life or business, have no choice to pay.
	agonist.org /node/30126/print (765 words)

	Microsoft Monopoly, Natural Monopoly, Predatory Pricing, Bill Gates, Price Discrimination, Antitrust
		Often, a monopoly is described as a single seller of goods or services for which there is no close substitute and for which there are high barriers to entry.
		While it is not illegal to have a monopoly position in a market, the antitrust laws make it unlawful to maintain or attempt to create a monopoly through tactics that either unreasonably exclude firms from the market or significantly impair their ability to compete.
		Thus, while a monopoly is not illegal per se, a rule of reason analysis may find that the methods used to achieve and maintain it had no other business objective other than monopolizing a market, and this is illegal.
	thismatter.com /Articles/Microsoft.htm (18501 words)

	Monthly Review April 2000 John Bellamy Foster
		A key contradiction of capitalism in its monopoly stage is therefore that of rising surplus and the associated problems of surplus absorption.
		In this strange, semi-regulated world of monopoly capital, there is no longer a life-or-death competition threatening the survival of the mature capitalist enterprise (though mergers in search of greater monopoly power are a common occurrence).
		Competition, which has as its main goal the development of monopoly power (entailing surplus profits or monopoly rents) through the monopolization of particular technologies and markets, is sometimes known as "Schumpeterian competition" and closely corresponds with how the term "competition" is used within business today.
	www.monthlyreview.org /400jbf.htm (5362 words)

	bellprofits2001
		The Bells are still monopolies, and there is no proof, court case, or any other research that shows that there is local phone competition of residential customers widely being used, or even available.
		Determining Bell profits is challenging, since the financial information provided by the Bells is presented in such a way that it is difficult to get a handle on expenses or revenues.
		Bell profits are not only a money issue, but also a fair and reasonable issue from the perspective of the customer services that make up local phone service.
	www.newnetworks.com /Bellprofits2001.htm (8153 words)

	Monopoly Profits and Net Neutrality \| The Agonist
		The description of motives behind the push for monopoly is, I believe, a bit superficial, especially as it applies to guilds and labor organizations.
		The range of personality styles distributed across a culture would be further evidence that the "tendency to monopoly" cannot be traced to individuals in general.
		The foil for such thinking is a focus on the free enterprise system where there is a requirement for taxation of wealth so that money can be returned to fund entrepreneurs who would otherwise be unable to promote their ideas.
	agonist.org /ian_welsh/20060426/monopoly_profits_and_net_neutrality (1369 words)

	AN EMERGING THEORY OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE GENERICISM
		To prevent copyright protection from allowing monopoly profits, copyright law should borrow from trademark law the concept of 'genericism' to test the competitive realities of enforcing a copyright in computer software.
		Moreover, because a monopoly period may interfere significantly with an efficient allocation of resources in a market economy, either by diverting resources to the monopolist or otherwise wasting them, patent protection is difficult to obtain.
		The supranormal profits will be of limited duration since competitive equilibrium will be restored when average costs, which include a normal return to capital, equal revenues.
	www.law.berkeley.edu /journals/btlj/articles/vol2/heckman.html (9287 words)

	Prof. Bryan Caplan
		Legally shielded monopolies able to permanently earn monopoly profits in excess of both MC and AC.
		There is probably a lot of "monopoly" on the free market created by superior efficiency, although it seems mostly beneficial.
		My pet theory: "natural monopoly" regulation has nothing to do with whether something is a natural monopoly as economists define it.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/e370/IO3.htm (1583 words)

	Firms: Monopoly - Question Bank
		Some economists have described monopoly profits as being a privately collected tax.
		government taxes the economic profits of a monopoly at a higher rate than it taxes the normal profits of a competitive firm
		If a regulatory agency permits a natural monopoly to just cover its cost of production and earn a normal profit, then the maximum price that the monopolist can charge is established where
	www.bized.ac.uk /learn/economics/qbank/firms6.htm (393 words)

	How To Gain Monopoly-Like Profits Through Ethnic Marketing : ArriveNet Editorials : Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Tapping into and creating ethnic space monopolies is at the heart of this article and should be the goal of every ethnic marketing plan.
		An additional key factor for locating potential monopoly spaces is to examine ethnic spaces overlooked by the competition.
		Owning ethnic market space is very profitable and in the near future for the U.S. market, it will become essential to ensure business growth.
	editorials.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/7239.html (1090 words)

	Econ 2106 exam 3 Spring 05
		In 1911 the Supreme Court ruled that American Tobacco Company was a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Act and must therefore dissolve; however, the resulting smaller companies were all still controlled by John D. Rockefeller and thus did little to increase competition.
		For a monopoly, marginal revenue is negative when demand is inelastic and positive with demand is elastic.
		Short run positive economic profits will cause firms to enter the market which will shift the S curve upward and drive up prices until the firms are earning a normal return.
	www.gdn.peachnet.edu /Faculty/lsmyth/micro.mc3.s05.htm (1492 words)

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		"natural monopoly" like public utilities, where it might be efficient to have only one company wire houses for cable or telephone or electricity, or have one set of pipes for water and natural gas.
		Page 445, Figure 11.3: A unified cartel can operate exactly like a single monopoly seller to achieve and sustain monopoly profits, by restricting output and raising price at Point M (Pm and Qm).
		2. Natural monopoly has no incentive to keep costs down and operate efficiently if all increases in ATC are exactly offset by a higher rate.
	spruce.flint.umich.edu /~mjperry/469-11.doc (1438 words)

	aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south.: Monopoly profits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		But Comcast is happy: The Comcast Corporation, the country's largest cable provider, said yesterday that profits jumped 64 percent in the second quarter, buoyed by...
		The Comcast Corporation, the country's largest cable provider, said yesterday that profits jumped 64 percent in the second quarter, buoyed by demand for digital television and high-speed Internet services.
		The nearly 80 percent of Americans who rely mostly on hourly wages barely maintained their purchasing power, according to the Labor Department.
	www.atypicaljoe.com /archives/2005/08/monopoly_profit_1.php (880 words)

	Jeremy Paxman of the BBC Interviews Tony Blair
		PAXMAN: Do you think profits can be ever unjustifiably large?
		BLAIR: I think they can be if they are monopoly profits, which is why we taxed the privatised utilities, got the excess profits and put that to work in the New Deal.
		But I don't believe that if you are acting in a competitive market, that it's the job of government to come along and tell a company - you are making too much profit.
	www.zmag.org /paxmanblair.htm (961 words)

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