| 单词 | monopolist |
| 例句 | The biggest controversy in the run-up to the publication of “Zero to One” has been over Mr Thiel’s unapologetic advice to entrepreneurs that they should avoid competition where possible and aspire to be monopolists. From one who should know 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Magie made two sets of rules: a monopolist version, which rewarded crushing your opponents to amass riches, and an anti-monopolist version, in which everybody benefitted from the creation of wealth. Playing Monopoly With the Woman Who Wrote the Book on It 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Photograph: Alamy Publishers have accused the US government of siding with the "monopolist retailer Amazon", stretching facts, and piling "innuendo on top of innuendo". Publishers hit back vigorously against accusations of ebook price-fixing 2012-06-01T08:49:40Z On Monday the Authors Guild released a heated statement to its 8,500 members calling Amazon a “monopolist.” BookExpo America, at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center 2012-06-06T22:38:06Z Knaves, monopolists and fat-cats who use intellectual property to repress knowledge growth instead of spurring it. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z And with the passing of decades the Bond villain evolved, embodying, the show suggests, first the fears of the cold war, then of nuclear annihilation, then worries over monopolists, drug moguls, post-Soviet collapse, post-Sept. Exhibition Review: ‘Exquisitely Evil,’ Bond Villains at International Spy Museum 2012-11-15T23:35:07Z The FTC sued Amazon in September, alleging the company acted as a “monopolist” and engaged in anti-competitive business practices to keep competitors from growing and raise prices across the internet. Inside Amazon's 'punitive regime' for independent sellers, according to the FTC 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Given Google’s position, they say, “a monopolist could enter into any contract — no matter its effects on competition — so long as one rival existed and made some feeble attempt to secure the business.” Column: Google's dominance affects us all. Why is its trial being held in secret? 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z All these issues of monopoly and competition are going to resonate in Seattle even more strongly soon, as Amazon was also sued by the feds last week for being a monopolist and abusing it. Microsoft the victim? Puh-lease 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z “Amazon is a monopolist that uses its power to hike prices on American shoppers and charge sky-high fees on hundreds of thousands of online sellers.” FTC hits Amazon with antitrust lawsuit accusing it of manipulating the online marketplace 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z The FTC, along with 17 state attorneys, claims that Amazon is a "monopolist" that stops rivals and sellers from lowering prices. Amazon: US accuses online giant of illegal monopoly 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z "This case involves a major law firm switching sides against former clients" to represent an alleged monopolist, attorneys for Yelp and the media group told U.S. Yelp wants Google's lawyers tossed from US antitrust case 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Adding to the complications: The D.O.J. continues to investigate the PGA Tour’s seemingly cozy ties to powerful golf tournament organizations as observers see it as “a dominant monopolist.” JPMorgan Moves to Put the Epstein Case Behind It 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z "Investors worry Google has become a lazy monopolist in search and the developments of the last couple of months have served as a wake-up call," Atlantic Equities analyst James Cordwell said. Alphabet falls on report Samsung considering Bing as default search engine 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z “That would seem entirely inconsistent with the messages that you see out of the Biden administration which are very tough but appropriately tough on monopolists, and that’s what we’re dealing with here.” U.S. and Canada should be on the same page on shoring up local news 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z But the larger agenda for the Biden administration’s antitrust enforcers involves major cases that accuse Big Tech of being bullying monopolists. To Rein In Big Tech, Europe Looked Beyond Lawsuits. Will the U.S. Follow? 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z “It’s about fundamental equality. And when you have a monopolist like that, it’s just so representative of the class structure of a society where there isn’t equality anymore, there isn’t fairness.” Taylor Swift ticket trouble could drive political engagement 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z He added, “It’s like shooting yourself in the foot, whether you are a competitor or a monopolist, not to have the capacity to deal with Taylor Swift concert sales.” Ticketmaster to Swifties: Our bad. Congress to Ticketmaster: That's not good enough 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z After a three-week trial last year, a judge largely sided with Apple, stopping short of dubbing the company an "illegal monopolist" and upholding its right to charge the commissions. 'Fortnite' creator to fight Apple antitrust ruling at appeal hearing 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Her previous expressions of her policy views about alleged big tech monopolists, Boasberg said, did not require Khan’s recusal under the standard for federal prosecutors. Meta refuses to give up on campaign to disqualify FTC chair 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Gonzalez Rogers landed in the middle, saying the market was mobile gaming transactions and that Apple controlled most of this market but not enough to be considered a monopolist. Replay: Epic Games and Apple to face off in second hearing. Here’s what to know 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z “It still lets monopolists sell at the price they prefer for a number of years into a drug’s life.” Column: Everyone is thrilled that Medicare can finally negotiate drug prices. Prepare to be disappointed 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z These supposedly oppressed tradesmen charge the PGA Tour is an “monopolist” seeking to restrain them. Perspective | LIV Golf sellouts bailed on the PGA Tour. Now they want back in? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z But monopolists who raise prices on decades-old drugs are not contributing to innovation. Opinion | Drug companies are warning that pricing reform spells doom. Don’t fall for it. 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z The Tour is “an entrenched monopolist with a vice-grip on professional golf,” the complaint argues. The New Deciders on Corporate Taxes 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “Will America continue to be a place where entrepreneurs lead our economy forward or will we become a country where a handful of monopolists dictate who gets a chance to succeed?” Progressives pressure Schumer to call a vote on antitrust bills 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z “The trillion-dollar big tech monopolists, especially Apple and Google, are getting desperate in their attacks,” Mr. Davis said. Klobuchar’s push to retool anti-trust bill attacked by big-tech defenders 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Second, a monopolist exerts exclusive possession or control of something and prevents others from engaging in it. Perspective | LIV Golf sellouts bailed on the PGA Tour. Now they want back in? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Those who suffer most from a profit-driven system belong to communities that are too poor or too rural to merit the attention of the broadband monopolists. Opinion | The Internet Is Broken. How Do We Fix It? 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z That keeps them in check so they cannot act like monopolists. Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet — is it? 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Even so, inflation “may provide ‘air cover’ for companies to wield market power more like traditional monopolists, raising consumer prices and intensifying inflationary pressures,” Meli wrote last year. As inflation spreads, rising prices fuel charges of corporate greed 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z “Only a monopolist would prefer to pay €50 million in fines instead of outright complying with the rule of law,” said Rick VanMeter, the executive director of the Coalition for App Fairness. Apple’s $55 million fine over in-app payments for Dutch dating apps could start growing faster 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z The new management team at indebted TIM is working on a new plan that could envisage shunting the former phone monopolist's network assets into a NetCo vehicle and splitting it off from its services businesses. KKR ready to veto any Telecom Italia plan to carve out network - paper 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z That sounds like an excuse a monopolist might use. Everything you need to know about the bill that could blow up the app store 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Let’s talk about the one monopolist you cannot keep in check. Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet — is it? 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z A California judge found that Epic failed to prove its case that Apple is a monopolist, though she did require the company to allow developers to “steer” customers to alternative payment processing services. Apple avoided the Washington techlash for years. Now it’s at the center of the bull’s eye. 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z "It is almost as if the agency expects the court to simply nod to the conventional wisdom that Facebook is a monopolist," he wrote at the time. Meta monopoly case from FTC given go-ahead 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland ruled largely in Apple’s favor, saying the tech giant was not a monopolist. Court rules Apple can delay changes that undermine its 30% cut of in-app sales 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Vance even called Binger a “lawless thug prosecutor” and added some babble about how “the full weight of the state and the global monopolists” played some dastardly role in Rittenhouse’s persecution. Opinion | Kyle Rittenhouse’s not-guilty verdict should not be a green light for other armed vigilantes 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The company argued in a court filing that the FTC has “no valid factual basis” showing that it’s an illegal monopolist, Cat Zakrzewski reports. Analysis | China is exploiting search engines to push propaganda about origins of covid-19, study finds 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z He makes a persuasive argument that the threats posed to societal welfare by monopsonists often surpass those of monopolists. Review | Why antitrust law should protect workers, not just consumers 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the company, accusing it of being a monopolist that acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to secure its dominance. Facebook’s Apps Went Down. The World Saw How Much It Runs on Them. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Gonzalez Rogers said Epic's challenge of any commission at all was an unreasonable position versus Apple, and that Epic failed to offer clear evidence of the iPhone maker being a monopolist. Analysis: Epic's narrow win in App Store case toughens fight against Google Play rules 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Finding that Apple has market power in the App Store is not the same as declaring it an illegal monopolist, but it opens the company to antitrust scrutiny that firms without market power are spared. Analysis | Apple called its Epic ruling a ‘huge win.’ It wasn’t. 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z “Given the trial record, the Court cannot ultimately conclude that Apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws,” according to the 185-page decision. Judge’s ruling may take a bite out of Apple’s App Store, but falls short of calling the iPhone maker a monopolist 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Gonzalez Rogers said Epic’s challenge of any commission at all was an unreasonable position versus Apple, and that Epic failed to offer clear evidence of the iPhone maker being a monopolist. Analysis-Epic's narrow win in App Store case toughens fight against Google Play rules 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z “The Court does not find that it is impossible; only that Epic Games failed in its burden to demonstrate Apple is an illegal monopolist.” Epic ruling invites future efforts to paint Apple as monopolist -experts 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z However in a win for Apple, the judge also ruled Epic failed to demonstrate Apple is an illegal monopolist. Apple dealt major blow in Epic Games trial 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The judge ruled Epic failed to demonstrate Apple is an illegal monopolist, but did show the smartphone giant engaged in “anticompetitive conduct” under California laws. U.S. judge in 'Fortnite' case strikes down Apple's in-app payment restrictions 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z And in that market, Apple is not a monopolist either, she ruled. Judge’s ruling may take a bite out of Apple’s App Store, but falls short of calling the iPhone maker a monopolist 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z “This proves the necessity of moving from subsidising commodities, which benefits traders and monopolists, to supporting citizens directly,” the bank said. Lebanon government says central bank broke law with fuel subsidy decision 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z “You have two monopolists fighting to dominate a market that is very rich and very large.” NSA quietly awards $10 billion cloud contract to Amazon, drawing protest from Microsoft 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Even as Russian and Chinese intelligence operatives escalate their attacks on the West, the two governments are trying to claim the high road as Internet cops — and denouncing Western technology companies as dangerous monopolists. Opinion | Russia and China are trying to control the Internet — even as they censor it 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z In the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, monopolists such as Rockefeller were widely despised. Biden’s hope to tackle big business abuses faces big obstacles 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z “It is almost as if the agency expects the court to simply nod to the conventional wisdom that Facebook is a monopolist,” he wrote. Judge Throws Out 2 Antitrust Cases Against Facebook 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z “It is almost as if the agency expects the Court to simply nod to the conventional wisdom that Facebook is a monopolist,” Boasberg wrote. Court says FTC hasn’t provided evidence Facebook is a monopoly, dismisses lawsuit 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z "It is almost as if the agency expects the court to simply nod to the conventional wisdom that Facebook is a monopolist." US judge throws out Facebook anti-trust lawsuits 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z “An aggressive set of reforms is needed to prevent a future where these monopolists further abuse consumer choice and hamper access to innovative and independent products,” the company said. Lawmakers, Taking Aim at Big Tech, Push Sweeping Overhaul of Antitrust 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The plaintiffs also need to better explain why Google’s refusal to support rival systems that the advertisers rely upon is anticompetitive, because antitrust law does not require monopolists to help competitors survive, Labson Freeman said. U.S. judge dismisses advertisers' antitrust claims against Google 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z "This is the behaviour of a monopolist and is unacceptable," she said. Apple's UK users deserve app price compensation, claim says 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Roosevelt, he argues, “never managed fully to banish the monopolists.” Review | In Josh Hawley’s book on Big Tech, his persona risks undermining his arguments 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Epic’s case revolves around antitrust questions — namely, whether Apple is a monopolist and whether it abuses that monopoly in its dealings with app developers. Apple takes its fight with Epic Games over the App Store to court 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z During trial, he is likely to be cross-examined by lawyers for Epic who will aim to paint him as a monopolist who is hurting innovation and competition. Apple is going to court with ‘Fortnite,’ and it could forever change how apps work 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z One provision in the draft lowered the bar for the authorities to argue, in certain cases, that a company was a monopolist. China Fines Alibaba $2.8 Billion in Landmark Antitrust Case 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z That fall, several nonprofit groups formed a coalition, called Athena, to help persuade Americans that the company was a monopolist and that it exploited workers. Union Loss May Bring New Phase of Campaign Against Amazon 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z In its 2020 annual financial report the former Italian phone monopolist said it would dispute the claims in court “with solid arguments”. Vodafone, Fastweb seek 1.1 billion euros in damages from Tim over alleged market abuse: document 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z “I hope when they put this together, they’re not just giving money to monopolists.” The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy. Really. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z These monopolists create, by abolishing regulation and oversight, as political economist Karl Polanyi writes, first a mafia economy and then, inevitably, a mafia state. Papering over the rot: Joe Biden's window dressing can't end oligarchy 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “Big Tech monopolists collude to cancel conservatives, tell us to ‘build your own’ social media platforms, and they collude to kill those like they are doing to Parler,” said Mr. Davis. Parler’s freedom from censorship comes at cost of users’ privacy 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z "Facebook is broadly seen as the most prominent villain, among all the tech monopolists." Zuckerberg's Biden problem 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Yet the political monopolists want to keep their control. The D.C. political monopoly just does not get it 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The inquiry in a monopolization case is often framed as whether the monopolist enjoys its market position because it excluded rivals or because it made a better or cheaper product. Why Facebook antitrust case relies so heavily on Mark Zuckerberg’s emails 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Whatever you say about Trump, he at least initiated moves to break up Facebook, Google, Amazon and the other Silicon Valley monopolists, none of which will happen under Biden, whose campaign these corporations bankrolled. Papering over the rot: Joe Biden's window dressing can't end oligarchy 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z In a complaint filed with the federal court in San Francisco, the government called Visa “a monopolist in online debit transactions” and said the proposed acquisition “would eliminate a nascent competitive threat” to that monopoly. U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z If you look at past big Section 2 monopoly cases, the monopolist almost always says that. Top Investigator in Google Case Says There ‘Was Not a Rush’ to Sue 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z In antitrust, consumer welfare is often associated with a monopolist demonstrating its power by raising product prices to maximize profit. Google Up Against Laws That Thwarted Microsoft (and Others Since 1890) 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z So in most monopolization cases, courts get stuck if they try to use only market facts to answer the ultimate question: Did the monopolist flourish because of the improvements or because of diminished competition? Why Facebook antitrust case relies so heavily on Mark Zuckerberg’s emails 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z With the tech industry, though, investigators concluded the government had “failed, at key occasions, to stop monopolists from rolling up their competitors and failed to protect the American people from abuses of monopoly power.” House investigation faults Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google for engaging in anti-competitive monopoly tactics 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z But it stopped short of declaring them all monopolists. Five things to know about the Big Tech antitrust report 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “Together we will fight back against the monopolist control of the app ecosystem by Apple.” Group of Apple adversaries aims to curb alleged bullying 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “I view your heavy-handed censorship as a sign of exactly the sort of degraded quality one expects from a monopolist,” he wrote in a letter to tech companies, including Google’s parent company, Alphabet, this summer. Google faces Congress again, this time with Republicans taking lead 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican and chair of the antitrust subcommittee, questioned Google’s Don Harrison about whether his company’s willingness to strongarm the Federalist revealed the type of heavy-handed tactics used by a monopolist. Senators grill Google over whether threats against the Federalist reveal antitrust violations 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Column: The maker of ‘Fortnite’ complains that Apple and Google are monopolists. Column: 'Fortnite' maker draws praise for fighting Apple, but lawsuits allege it rips off kids 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The filing described the iPhone maker as a “monopolist” that maintains its monopolies by “explicitly prohibiting any competitive entry”. Epic Games asks court to prevent what it describes as Apple's "retaliation" 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z It said it would start discussions with the former phone monopolist over possible forms of cooperation on 5G and data centre business. Italy's TIM, CDP agree preliminary deal on single broadband plan 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Apple is facing a landmark lawsuit filed by Fortnite owner Epic Games that claims Apple is using its status as an alleged monopolist to overcharge app developers with 30 percent fees on App Store earnings. Apple makes a privacy change, and Facebook and advertising companies cry foul 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s proper to note that Epic is alleging that both are monopolists, although obviously they compete energetically against each other. Column: The maker of 'Fortnite' complains that Apple and Google are monopolists. No kidding 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Column: The maker of ‘Fortnite’ complains that Apple and Google are monopolists. Column: 'Fortnite' maker draws praise for fighting Apple, but lawsuits allege it rips off kids 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Do we cede more power to the monopolists, or does Congress make clear who is in charge? US congress just got more power to investigate Big Tech. Let's make it count | Zephyr Teachout 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Apple is acting like a monopolist and a bully, according to the chairman of the House antitrust subcommittee. Apple’s App Store fees are "highway robbery," says House Antitrust Committee chair 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z There’s a cognitive dissonance to calling Apple a monopolist. Apple’s App Store polices are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement is worse 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z It adds: “Apple is bigger, more powerful, more entrenched, and more pernicious than the monopolists of yesteryear.” Column: The maker of 'Fortnite' complains that Apple and Google are monopolists. No kidding 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z It increases the burden of proof on monopolists to prove they’re not suppressing competition, and it discourages courts from granting immunity from antitrust enforcement. Congress takes aim at Google search in antitrust hearing 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Do we cede more power to the monopolists, or does Congress make clear who is in charge? US congress just got more power to investigate Big Tech. Let's make it count | Zephyr Teachout 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z That’s always the answer of monopolists: “if you don’t like it, leave.” Apple’s App Store fees are "highway robbery," says House Antitrust Committee chair 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Demand does not elicit supply when monopolists use politics to restrict supply. Opinion | Why Warren’s ardent defense of the teachers union monopoly hurts students 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z ASML, one of the Netherlands’ largest companies, is a near monopolist in lithography, an essential step in the manufacture of computer chips. Chinese ambassador warns Dutch government against restricting ASML supplies 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z You’ll have to look elsewhere for books that wrestle deeply with big tech’s monopolists and the economic inequality they sow. Review: 'Uncanny Valley' serves up a biting slice of start-up life 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Adam Smith offered advice for how societies should handle the rich: he calls on legislators not to put the interests of wealthy monopolists ahead of the public welfare. The historical case for abolishing billionaires 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z This is a classic playbook where the monopolists capture control of a distribution network and then bully people, or charge ransom to access it. Apple’s App Store fees are "highway robbery," says House Antitrust Committee chair 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Imagine, said Coase, you were a monopolist, you alone produced a certain thing. What links Gwyneth Paltrow and a royal potter? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z “These guys all wanted to be monopolists,” he said recently. Big Tech’s Big Defector 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z But Amazon is a monopolist with nearly 50 percent of all e-commerce retail sales in America, and e-commerce is one of the biggest sectors of retail sales. Why billionaires don’t really like capitalism 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z This corporate sponsorship has brought criticism from some including the Iowa-based Occupy World Food Prize organization, which has accused corporate sponsors of being biotech, seed-and-chemical monopolists that promote the opposite of sustainability. Leader of food security nonprofits to head World Food Prize 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But Amazon is a monopolist with nearly 50% of all e-commerce retail sales in America, and e-commerce is one of the biggest sectors of retail sales. Billionaires fear Warren and Sanders – but they should fear us all | Robert Reich 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Warren, of course, backed her own plan, arguing that “a handful of monopolists” shouldn’t “dominate our economy and our democracy.” Most Democrats refuse to back Elizabeth Warren’s big tech break up plan on the debate stage 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Instead, monopolists should look right here at Montgomery County to see what happens when a monopoly loses power. Opinion | Coming next to Montgomery County: A marijuana monopoly? 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z “I want to return government to the people, and that means calling out the names of the monopolists and saying I have the courage to go after them.” Democratic divides take center stage at first debate 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Does Will envision a society dominated by monopolists like Amazon, Apple and Netflix — advancing a libertarian sexual ethos, including support for unlimited abortion on demand — to be the aspiration to which conservatism should aim? Review | A defense of conservatism that veers toward liberalism 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Absent Bing, Google would be an obvious monopolist in web search. Bing’s not the laughingstock of technology anymore 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Even monopolists do not have a so-called “duty to deal” with competitors. Qualcomm has strong argument to win reversal of U.S. antitrust... 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The lock-in is the friend of monopolists, the enemy of competition, and may require a robust response from regulators. How did the qwerty keyboard become so popular? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z “If you’re in a consolidated market, you are a monopolist and are setting the price,” said Mark Miller, a former executive director for the group that advises Congress on Medicare payments. Hospitals Stand to Lose Billions Under ‘Medicare for All’ 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z So, which presidential candidate did the monopolists donate to in the 2016 election? In “The Curse of Bigness” Tim Wu makes his case that big business ushered in the Nazis 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “He owned all the capacity, but he was still a monopolist. Capacity is meaningless when it comes to setting prices.” Democratic lawmakers rip into T-Mobile CEO over Trump hotel stays 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z “This only affects tech monopolists,” she said of her plan, according to Variety. #BreakUpBigTech: Elizabeth Warren says Facebook just proved her point 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z And attorneys representing consumers in a pending Supreme Court case charge that Apple is an unfair monopolist in the market for iPhone apps. iPhone sales are falling, and Apple's app fees might be next 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Attorneys representing consumers in a pending Supreme Court case also charge that Apple is an unfair monopolist in the market for iPhone apps. iPhone sales are falling, and Apple’s app fees might be next 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z In the early chapters, Wu makes a strained connection between the Social Darwinists and the Gilded Age monopolists, claiming they were motivated by the same eugenicist ideology as applied to society and business. Tim Wu's morality play: A review of "The Curse of Bigness" 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z What Facebook is really asking for is to be embraced and protected as America’s very own social media monopolist, bravely doing battle overseas. Facebook’s role in the French protests has polarized observers 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The question underlying the supreme court hearing was: is it an abusive monopolist? Apple has always been a control freak. But is it guilty of abusing its monopoly power? | John Naughton 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z He also said that Petrobras should not be a monopolist in oil refining, and that he would analyze all current asset sales, including that of liquid petroleum gas distribution company Liquigas. Petrobras should focus on oil exploration and production: incoming CEO 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z But resistance to Big Tech also includes China curbing the power of its own technology companies, and India rejecting foreign monopolists in favor of homegrown players. The Global Tech Backlash Is Just Beginning 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The Seattle Times editorial board praises tech monopolist Jeff Bezos’ decision to raise wages for all warehouse workers as part of the “enlightened and progressive” workplace policies of Seattle’s largest public companies. Amazon wage raise: ‘Fig leaf’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z A big operator moved into the neighborhood and promptly started scooping up business, leaving the previous gambling monopolists to fuss and fume. Editorials from around New England 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z We must demand liberty, and that means more than $15/hour in wages from a monopolist. Don't thank Bezos for giving Amazon workers a much-needed raise | Matt Stoller 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z In this view, there is no crime in being monopolist; the crime is in abusing that power. Amazon Is a Giant. But Bigness Isn’t a Crime 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Internet companies and entrepreneurs, formerly valorized as the vanguard of American ingenuity and the astronauts of our time, were being compared to Standard Oil and other monopolists of the Gilded Age. Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “They’re trying to set themselves up as regulated monopolist for the foreseeable future.” It’s time to break up Facebook 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Open Fiber is building a wholesale-only fast internet network across Italy which will rival the network of former phone monopolist Telecom Italia. Open Fiber granted 3.5 billion euro project financing for Italian... 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z This American political economy ideology was organized around protecting the citizen – worker, the engineer, the businessperson, the artist, the creator and the farmer – from the financier or monopolist. Don't thank Bezos for giving Amazon workers a much-needed raise | Matt Stoller 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Another was freedom for network monopolists Amazon, Google and Facebook to get into the business of publishing and video production. AT&T-Time Warner is Godzilla v Rodan: citizens will get squashed 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z In the 1980s I studied the angry American agrarians who, a century before, squared off against railroad monopolists. Forget Trump – populism is the cure, not the disease 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z An owner of a valuable plot in, say, the Bay Area of California is inherently a monopolist. Don’t shrink the role of markets—expand it 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z It is the most expensive of locally produced cars made by the country's monopolist GM Uzbekistan and costs about about 30,000 dollars - a hundred times the average monthly wage there. Luxury ride for stolen livestock 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z If anything, Vestager’s verdict and state investigations indicate that companies like Google may have more in common with the monopolists of old than most people thought. The Case Against Google 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z “It’s not Bill Gates, who came out of nowhere, but big corporations that are getting bigger and becoming monopolists.” After Globalization, a New Specter Could Feed Populist Politics 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z This offends sacred principle, never mind that it increasingly turns wireless into a plausible substitute for the local fixed-line monopolist. The FCC’s Christmas Gift to Internet Users 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Yes, Microsoft only seems like it's not an aggressive monopolist anymore. Microsoft Moves to End Secrecy in Sexual Harassment Claims 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z If we are “done”, then the potential harm of a Title II reclassification is much lower; sure, ISPs will have to do more paperwork, but honestly, they’re just a bunch of mean monopolists anyways, right? Read FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s statement on killing net neutrality 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s never been about whether we love the monopolist. The Case Against Google 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Today’s internet is lousy with gatekeepers, tollbooths and monopolists. The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The outcome will likely not be as healthy as breaking up a predatory monopolist. GE, RIP — and Wall Street is to blame 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z It will take time to figure out how to ensure Google, Facebook and the other giant platform monopolists truly serve the political and commercial interests of the American people. How to stop Google and Facebook from becoming even more powerful | Barry Lynn and Matt Stoller 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z It is about complicated corporate structures in obscure jurisdictions, involving offshore funds funnelled through the black-box algorithms of the platform tech monopolists. Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance | Carole Cadwalladr 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Putin warned that “it would be strongly undesirable if someone wins a monopolist position” and promised that Russia would be ready to share its know-how in artificial intelligence with other nations. Putin: Leader in artificial intelligence will rule the world 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The Open Markets’ statement that drew Mr. Schmidt’s ire praised the fine, and called on United States regulators to more aggressively enforce antitrust rules against Google, Amazon and “other dominant platform monopolists.” Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z And if Amazon is not a monopolist, Khan asks, why are financial markets pricing its stock as if it is going to be? Perspective | Is Amazon getting too big? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Without competitors breathing down their necks, monopolists find it easy to make large profits: just ask the 46m American households served by only one fast-broadband provider, who pay high prices for poor service. America’s uncompetitive markets harm its economy 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The energetic young president co-opted the press corps and used the presidency’s “bully pulpit” to do battle with monopolists and robber barons and push a progressive agenda. These presidents all said they were going to change America. How’d that work out? 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z A monopolist sets prices above free market equilibrium. The Fight for Health Care Has Begun 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z But the Populists hurled their political fury at the forces of organized money: the bankers, the monopolists, the railroad magnates, and the politicians who wrote the back-room deals of the money-men into law. Liberals risk becoming a permanent minority in America | Daniel T Rodgers 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z And that was the real theme of tech in 2016: A raft of companies that were underdogs and scrappy upstarts just 20 years ago are now the incumbents, the budding monopolists, the ones in charge. Why 2016 Was a Watershed Year for Tech 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z It is easy enough for consumers to see the consequences when monopolists entrench themselves in one industry. America’s uncompetitive markets harm its economy 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z To the naked eye Time Warner Cable and the Dodgers were the real monopolist here. The L.A. Dodgers Could Help Kill the AT&T Merger 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Once more unto the valley of the kings, then, as another Silicon monopolist issues a decree, in this case to the indescribably junior entity that is Norway. The likes of Mark Zuckerberg already rule the media. Now they want to censor the past | Marina Hyde 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z If monopolists start to make juicy profits, there is nothing stopping others from entering, or re-entering, the market. Encumbered exchange 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The irony this time is that the target is a monopolist created by the same government that Mrs. Clinton wants to hand far more power over drugs. Anaphylactic Political Shock 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z In a book, “Zero to One”, published in 2014, he pooh-poohed competition and celebrated the power of “creative monopolists” who add “entirely new categories of abundance to the world”. The evolution of Mr Thiel 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The first is what he called “exit”: the ability of customers to go elsewhere or refrain from buying, moves that can pressure even the most inefficient monopolist. Waiting in Line for the Illusion of Security 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z He is the modern era's McCarthy, ready and willing to use government to oppress anyone who is not an evangelical Christian, and this era's Taft, willing to grease the skids for every onerous monopolist around. Before Indiana, Ted Cruz Struggles as Donald Trump Revels in Lead 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The strategy worked so well that for a time, Barnes & Noble was vilified as a greedy monopolist that was crushing independent booksellers. Barnes & Noble’s Longtime Leader, Leonard Riggio, Is Stepping Down 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z You are not doing the best for innovation if you are a monopolist. US senator accuses Europe of using antitrust cases to disguise tech interests 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z They allow the monopolist to charge a premium, capturing benefits that would otherwise flow to producers or consumers. Wookienomics 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Opponents, and even some legalization proponents, called the investors monopolists. Legalizing marijuana is gaining support, so why did Ohio vote against it? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Take those two pieces — the platform strategy tax, and the retail monopolist — and put them together, and it suddenly seems amazing that Amazon ever sold Apple and Google video devices in the first place. What's behind Amazon’s baffling decision to ban Apple TV and Chromecast? 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z But being a benign monopolist doesn’t make you any less of a threat to the proper, competitive operation of a market. Is Android a monopoly? 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Indeed, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said during an earnings call in April that his ideal is a single regulated monopolist serving each home. The FCC Imposes Netflix’s Broadband Policy 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Many of the traditional guardians of the literary community, however, think the retailer is a monopolist and a bully, and they are taking their discontent public in an unusually broad-based way. Accusing Amazon of Antitrust Violations, Authors and Booksellers Demand U.S. Inquiry 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The digital monopolists are not above using the rhetoric of libertarianism to spread the message that they alone are the guardians of freedom in the world. A Letter to Millennials: Don't Sleep Through the Revolution 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z "Apple took steps to compete with a monopolist and open the market to more entrants, generating only minor competitive restraints in the process," Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote. Apple conspired to fix e-book prices, US court rules - BBC News 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z "Apple took steps to compete with a monopolist and open the market to more entrants, generating only minor competitive restraints in the process," Jacobs wrote. Appeals Court Says Apple Conspired to Fix E-Book Prices 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The result: “It’s a monopoly situation, and the monopolist takes advantage of that.” FIFA scandal highlights culture of corruption in World Cup, Olympics bidding 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It isn’t inconsistent for a monopolist in one industry to be an innovative upstart in another. Not to Be Stopped, Google Takes On the Wireless World 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Make no mistake, while the movie studios, record companies, newspapers and magazines operate in a very competitive environment, the platform providers are monopolists or, at least, oligopolists. A Letter to Millennials: Don't Sleep Through the Revolution 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Creative monopolists give customers more choices by adding entirely new categories of abundance to the world. Learning to Innovate 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z “Lizzie created two sets of rules,” Pilon explains: “an anti-monopolist set in which all were rewarded when wealth was created, and a monopolist set in which the goal was to create monopolies and crush opponents.” The fake history — and the real one — behind the inventing of ‘Monopoly’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z “That is what monopolists do — contrive scarcity to drive up the price.” Football’s L.A. Trick Play 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z But success and a dominant market position aren’t illegal unless they’re acquired unlawfully or if a monopolist abuses its market power. Not to Be Stopped, Google Takes On the Wireless World 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z And yet it was the monopolist version of the game that caught on, with Darrow claiming a version of it as his own and selling it to Parker Brothers. The Progressive Who Didn’t Pass ‘Go’ 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z In a static world, a monopolist is just a rent collector. Learning to Innovate 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z “When a monopolist is maintaining a monopoly through low-cost pricing, the erosion of that monopoly will cause prices to rise.” The age of Amazon is upon us: How one court battle reveals the growing threat of monopoly 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs asked a Department of Justice lawyer why it was wrong for the publishers to get together to defeat a "monopolist" that was using "predatory pricing." U.S. faces tough questions in Apple e-books antitrust appeal 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z So is Google an evil monopolist or competitive champion? Not to Be Stopped, Google Takes On the Wireless World 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z And perhaps the price being charged is indeed greater than the razor’s edge “justifiable” monopolist price. The Cost And Value Of Drugs Part Two: Benefits And Effectiveness 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The “monopolist” of today is tomorrow’s victim of a process that the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter aptly described as “creative destruction,” which arises when existing companies fail to recognize or exploit new ideas and technologies. Guest: Jeff Bezos and Amazon should be a hero to progressives 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z A Chinese regulator said it began an investigating Microsoft for potential monopolist practices in June. China charges Microsoft $137 million in back taxes 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z These regional monopolists stifled competition and thwarted innovation. Back to the 1930s -- President Obama's Proposal Compromises the Internet's Future 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z No one likes a bully, particularly a former monopolist with more than $100 billion in annual revenues. Verizon Tells FCC How To Avoid Getting Sued Over New Neutrality Rules 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z But Jackson wasn’t done yet — the declaration that Microsoft was a monopolist was only the first half of his decision. 15 years ago a judge ordered Microsoft to split 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Consider the following: “Creative monopolists” give customers more choices by adding entirely new categories of abundance. Why You Need to Read Peter Thiel's New Book -- at Least the Good Parts 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z In economics jargon, Amazon is not, at least so far, acting like a monopolist, a dominant seller with the power to raise prices. Paul Krugman's Error Over Amazon's Market Power 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The officials trying to tame the monopolists lack important information about their business: a phenomenon economists call “asymmetric information”. It’s complicated 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z "What Foer is describing is not the nefarious actions of a monopolist but the normal actions of a big, well-funded firm in a spirited market," she writes. Is Amazon a failure of capitalism? 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z These days, it’s harder to see Microsoft as the big monopolist bully Judge Jackson once described. 15 years ago a judge ordered Microsoft to split 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z A monopolist in one part of the production chain—say, a computer operating system—might be able to extend its market power to neighboring links on the chain. One Great Idea From Jean Tirole, the Nobel Economist 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Such pricing is the hallmark of a perfectly discriminating monopolist — the most egregious form of monopoly. As Russia Intimidates Europe, Obama Fiddles On Energy Policy 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z They do not want monopolists to gouge consumers and stifle innovation, yet they often struggle to determine the extent to which such things are happening. It’s complicated 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z How much of that involves monopolist practices by global standards, and how much of it is just harassment of foreign companies? Forbes 400: Richest Americans Facing Tougher Competition In China Business 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Today, Microsoft is considered a legitimate turnaround story with a foothold in cloud computing, not a monopolist. Is Alibaba The Next Comcast, Polaroid Or Syntex? 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Patent offices and patent attorneys and their customers, patent monopolists, wanted to cash in. Human DNA belongs to no one - it shouldn't be patented 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z There is another way that monopolists tend to use resources inefficiently and is the second reason to hope for the salt monopoly’s demise. China's Salt Monopoly: Cracking Down on Illegal Contraband 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The argument is that a monopsonist is able to hold wage below the equilibrium level, just like a monopolist would hold prices below the competitive equilibrium. Where Is The Monopsony Power? 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Indeed, until the mid 1990s, that was the US way, with local government licensed monopolists providing cable TV nationwide. Competition, Not Mergers: The Road to Sound Internet and Cable Policy 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z I define the Chinese Communist Party as the 'Fruits Party', while in USA there are two monopolist party -- the 'Apple Party' and the 'Banana Party'. Daily chart: Crowning the dragon 2014-04-30T00:02:16Z The theory is that a monopolist is willing to pay more to cement its position than a rival is willing to pay to displace the monopolist. Has The FCC Made Its Case To Restrict Certain Bidders In The Broadcast-Spectrum Incentive Auction? 2014-04-29T01:39:00Z The vexing part of these expenditures is that they exist solely to preserve the inefficiently high profits that the monopolist enjoys. China's Salt Monopoly: Cracking Down on Illegal Contraband 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z As Professor Hemphill noted, “Even a monopolist will pass through savings to customers as long as there’s elasticity of demand.” Common Sense: A Vision for Comcast in a Post-Merger World 2014-03-28T17:36:06Z Relying on the promises of aspiring monopolists might not be the best way to ensure the construction of critical national infrastructure. Sprint's Fight Against Cable Is Just a Fantasy 2014-03-12T18:55:43Z These monopolists, it is feared, will be slow to introduce new technologies that might cannibalise their existing business; and they will be so entrenched that new competitors will find it hard to get a foothold. Competition policy: Crossing continents 2014-02-20T15:58:35Z Although the auction might cause the monopolist to surrender a good portion of its profits to the auctioneer, at the end of the day, consumers are still beholden to monopoly prices. Has The FCC Made Its Case To Restrict Certain Bidders In The Broadcast-Spectrum Incentive Auction? 2014-04-29T01:39:00Z Instead of blocking mergers or beating concessions out of the telecom giants, let's give them the treatment they really fear: Policies that encourage the entry of competitors, which are the bane of every monopolist. COLUMN-Who's afraid of Comcast? 2014-02-20T17:03:41Z Call it skeptical, wary, or paranoid: among tech-savvy individuals, there will be no shortage of concerns about handing over even more of our data to this or that monopolist. Social ID Raises Questions On Data Ownership, Privacy, Monopoly 2014-01-31T20:40:00Z And yes, we do always expect that monopolists will make their hay while the sun shines. Apple Claims It's Being Gouged By the E-Books Antitrust Monitor 2013-11-29T17:09:00Z For those concerned that Google is a monopolist, this ruling blesses one of Google’s competitive differentiators and raises the stakes–and potential costs–for Google’s competitors. Why Google's Fair Use Victory In Google Books Suit Is A Big Deal--And Why It Isn't 2013-11-14T19:52:00Z Ironically, the higher prices that monopolists like to set may actually be what the planet needs. Phosphorus: Farming's dirty secret 2013-11-06T00:00:23Z Sure, new cable operators could apply to compete, but they still had to run the regulatory maze and face well-entrenched government-made monopolists. COLUMN-Who's afraid of Comcast? 2014-02-20T17:03:41Z Washington’s intent, says Smith, the spokesman for Washington’s Liquor Control Board, was to avoid allowing monopolists to keep prices artificially high. Test Cases for Legal Pot 2013-10-19T11:05:26Z Even if you’re in a declining market then being the effective monopolist is a hugely profitable thing to be. The Move To Get Bill Gates To Resign As Microsoft Chairman, It's About Who Gets The Profits 2013-10-02T15:25:00Z It's the local store with a town tied up in its grasp, bathing in monopolist prosperity. The importance of being paranoid 2013-08-20T23:09:47Z In the eyes of most Bulgarians the media monopolist was corruption incarnate. Bulgaria's 'class war' 2013-07-26T20:00:11Z The monopolist gets to use its monopoly to insist on a contract effectively depriving its victims of all legal recourse. The Supreme Court: Corporate America's Employees of the Month 2013-06-27T09:35:09Z In a strongly worded dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the decision means "the monopolist gets to use its monopoly power to insist on a contract effectively depriving its victims of all legal recourse." Supreme Court blocks class-action claim against American Express 2013-06-21T01:32:00Z In a strongly worded dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the decision means “the monopolist gets to use its monopoly power to insist on a contract effectively depriving its victims of all legal recourse.” Supreme Court strikes down funding law on sex trafficking 2013-06-21T00:54:05Z “The monopolist gets to use its monopoly power to insist on a contract effectively depriving its victims of all legal recourse,” Kagan wrote. Supreme Court sides with American Express on arbitration 2013-06-20T21:00:00Z We want a new beginning where people will be protected from corruption, from the monopolists selling energy at impossible prices, or foreign supermarket chains suffocating local production. Bulgarian voters' views: 'Election doomed' 2013-05-15T17:40:27Z Advance made its decisions up against some very dark trends in the business, but they were made with the dead-eyed arrogance of a monopolist in a much-changed world. The Media Equation: In New Orleans, Times-Picayune’s Monopoly Crumbles 2013-05-13T00:36:45Z Slim and the other Mexican monopolists targeted in the bill aren’t drug lords. Legalize Marijuana and Other Ways U.S.-Mexico Can Win Drug War 2013-05-03T10:50:21Z It’s never easy, which is why the monopolists gets away with so much for so long. The Divine Right Of Telcos To Abuse Customers 2013-04-16T21:53:29Z To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist, as a land monopolist, contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. I agree with Churchill: let's get stuck into the real shirkers 2013-01-21T20:30:01Z It further argued that Amazon was "predatory" and a "monopolist" and that the government's case was based on "innuendo." Media Decoder Blog: Awaiting Merger With Random House, Penguin Settles E-Book Case 2012-12-18T23:57:43Z Finally, you've got to think like a monopolist from day one. Start-up Conversations With Elon Musk, Tony Hsieh, Reid Hoffman & More 2012-12-17T17:45:52Z TPSA, the former state monopolist, already slashed its 2012 outlook and future dividend payout last month due to economic factors and aggressive competitors, dragging its shares to levels unseen in nine years. TPSA sees Polish telco market tumbling further in 2013 2012-12-07T13:10:23Z Access is access.It isn’t just monopolists who prefer not to innovate: their competitors do, too. Google Antitrust Case Is Built On A Shaky Foundation 2012-11-26T18:32:59Z Regulation is a complex subject, has been for a century or more since President Teddy Roosevelt challenged the great oil and steel monopolists of America at its most predatory – his anti-trust regulation was pioneer work. Tax and pricing scams that make regulators look silly: jail the rascals 2012-11-13T15:16:42Z "This is a company that starts with essentially a monopolist position in desktop search, and now through Android they are capturing more than half of the mobile ad revenue dollars," Meeks said. Analysis: How long can Google's shares stay airborne? 2012-10-17T21:52:55Z One way is through the market mechanism - as monopolists did with railroads and industrial sectors at the end of the 19th century. Today's Economist: Simon Johnson: Money, Power and the Rule Of Law 2012-10-04T09:00:56Z As of 2013, the monopolist will start facing competition as Poland begins to liberalize its 14 billion cubic meters gas market. PGNiG plans cost cuts to offset gas trade losses 2012-09-26T16:42:35Z "I wish the beneficiary was not a rapacious monopolist." E-book settlement has publishing world in turmoil 2012-09-08T12:00:00Z In the US, the publishers facing a lawsuit for fixing e-book pricing lashed out last week, with Penguin accusing Amazon of "predatory" and "monopolist" behaviour. The Kindle's achilles heel is hard to find 2012-06-03T18:29:01Z In its 74-page response, Penguin called Amazon “predatory” and a “monopolist” that treats books as “widgets.” Penguin and Macmillan Deny e-Book Price Fixing 2012-05-31T02:17:55Z In the early days, what were still known as the Baby Bells were treated as DSL monopolists, forced to resell access to their broadband lines to competitors at cost. Wonkbook: Senate GOP blocks student loan plan 2012-05-09T12:01:22Z If I am a monopolist, so also are you; so also is every man. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z The person who bought it three years ago is Eyob “Joe” Mamo, the gas station king of Washington, who is either a shining immigrant success story or a cutthroat monopolist. The Watergate Exxon?s famously expensive gas 2012-04-04T22:26:41Z Jean Law is exhibited as a "wind monopolist." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z And the personality, the appearance, the Venusberg charm of this heart monopolist? Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The great army of laborers, instead of controlling the political affairs of the country in their own interest, become the instruments in the hands of the monopolists of their own oppression. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z She is certainly a monopolist of talents and attractions which would suffice, if divided in ordinary proportions, to furnish forth a host of charming women. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z But love, man's love, woman's love, is the most cruel of monopolists: it tramples on the claims of the present, much more of the absent. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z And yet, as long as some men are stronger than others, as long as some are more intelligent than others, they must be, to the extent of such advantage, monopolists. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Google doesn’t act like a monopolist and shares none of the characteristics sheltering classic monopolists from competition. Off With Their Heads! The Fantasy Google Monopoly 2012-02-03T17:57:10Z It will be seen that these monopolists who have combined for that purpose are systematically robbing the farmer of about one-half of his crop. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z Far better to deal with lack of competition directly, forcing offending monopolists to divest market share. Spectrum Auctions: It Still Makes Sense to Sell Bandwidth to the Highest Bidders 2012-01-17T12:00:25Z Not exhorters; not conversational monopolists; not lecturers; not the most learned doctor of divinity who is not also a teacher. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z The successful competitor becomes a monopolist, and if competitors fail to destroy each other, the instinct of self-preservation suggests a combination. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Classic monopolists such as the AT&T Bell System, Microsoft and others all share certain distinctive characteristics. Off With Their Heads! The Fantasy Google Monopoly 2012-02-03T17:57:10Z The banditti who raid upon the country, and levy tribute upon the inhabitants by force, are no greater robbers or oppressors than these monopolists. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z He was no monopolist, and the only patent he ever took out was for the discovery of the lost art of burning in colours, as in the Etruscan vases. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z But they will never consent to become the prey of the politician, the boss, the monopolist, and the carpet-bagger, and from these they must be assured of protection before they will submit. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z Chiefs, barons, priests, and kings ruled, robbed, destroyed, and duped, and their places have been taken by corporations, monopolists, and politicians. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z The reality is that Google neither acts like nor is sheltered from competition like the monopolists of the past, something the company’s critics never claim because they just can’t. Off With Their Heads! The Fantasy Google Monopoly 2012-02-03T17:57:10Z Protection to a small band of monopolists has caused an annual decrease in the amount of coin in the country equal to the excess of imports over exports. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z The suit is a byproduct of the U.S. government’s landmark antitrust case against Microsoft that settled more than eight years ago, in which the Redmond, Washington-based company was declared an illegal monopolist. Gates May Face Questions on Novell Monopoly Claims in Utah Suit 2011-11-21T08:40:43Z The Cadiz monopolists still fought hard to preserve their privileges and to control the Atlantic trade as they had controlled the route by the Isthmus. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z Look at the monopolists now preying upon the public in every corner of the land. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Finally, classic monopolists restrict output and use their power to lock in consumers. Off With Their Heads! The Fantasy Google Monopoly 2012-02-03T17:57:10Z One of the chief causes of this deplorable state of affairs is the absolute control obtained by these petted monopolists over our inland commerce, and their tyrannical extortions in rates for transportation. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z The monopolists of literary fame, for the most part, regard a rival as an enemy. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z But the Cadiz monopolists were stubborn and their influence with the Court was all-powerful. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z But, unawares, it put in the place of the old hereditary lords and monopolists, known as such by everybody, a nobility in disguise. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Applause, applause, for the “renegade” defying Pete Rozelle and the smug monopolists — right? The Al Davis legacy: A ?love-hate? relationship with Raider Nation and the NFL 2011-10-10T20:24:10Z Controlled as it is by a few leading men, who have their partners, agents, and servants everywhere, it is not strange that the champions of these monopolists should be found in congress. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z "Naked and not ashamed" our "Interests" stand, "Scourge of our Toil, monopolist of our Land!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 2011-10-02T02:00:16.433Z The current antitrust rules for limiting anticompetitive conduct by monopolists focus on forcing monopolists to share access to their goods or services. Should Regulators Treat Google Like Standard & Poor's? 2011-09-29T11:46:41Z They asserted the competency of the State against the monopolists, and they cannot now deny it against the socialists. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z And Davis made those smug monopolists many times wealthier than they would have otherwise become, at the expense of ordinary citizens in cities like Baltimore, St. Louis and Cincinnati. The Al Davis legacy: A ?love-hate? relationship with Raider Nation and the NFL 2011-10-10T20:24:10Z We now beg to call the reader's attention to the financial operations of the monopolists, and the course resorted to by them to control the finances of the country. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z He owned immense coffee plantations in Para, and was practically the monopolist of the sugar regions of Maranhao, but his greatest revenues came from his immense holdings in gold, manganese, and diamond mines. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z In vain, afterwards, would the monopolists and the superior persons chant patriotic verse to drown the noise of chain forging at the Westminster 190 foundry. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Second: I believe that "the earth and the fullness thereof" was provided by nature for the benefit of all her children, and not as the "vested interest" of a few greedy monopolists. Why I am in favor of socialism 2011-08-22T02:01:00.513Z Just think about how easily long distance companies caught the monopolist AT&T after deregulation. Avoid Gladiator Wars - Invest in David, Make Money Like Apple 2011-07-14T22:40:48Z Those who are in the interest of these monopolists talk about cheap freights; they argue that railroads can transport freights much cheaper than it can be done over ordinary highways. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z The second is that because the F-35 was designed to replace so many types of aircraft, it has, in effect, a monopolist’s grip on the future fighter market. The defence industry: The last manned fighter 2011-07-14T11:01:07Z The protracted rituals of antitrust, however, were built for a world in which monopolists stymied innovation, jacked up prices, stifled competition and arm-twisted customers into buying extra goods or services they didn’t need. Google Requires Oversight but Not a U.S. Antitrust Probe: View 2011-07-13T04:18:16Z The State, like almost all monopolists, charges exorbitant prices. Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z He iss a great hog; he iss like those monopolists that puts smaller people out of business and gobbles it all.” The Best Policy 2011-06-13T02:00:32.860Z The influence of the laboring classes is made to subserve the purposes of monopolists. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z He feels his being as deeply as Wordsworth, or any other of our intellectual monopolists. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z By that measure, the combined AT&T/T-Mobile would hardly be a monopolist. The AT&T/T-Mobile Deal: Should We Fear Wireless Consolidation? 2011-06-04T04:18:01Z Like almost all monopolists, it supplies a worthless, or nearly worthless, article. Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z These monopolists were therefore anxious to suppress the publication of plays, and to smother the fame of their dramatist on their own boards. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The real question at issue between the people and monopolies fostered and protected by government is, whether the people shall rule, or remain the servants and vassals of the monopolists. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z Here too he had no preconceived ideas; the royal and monopolist companies were never for him an end but a means; and after much experimenting he at length attained success. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The most inveterate revolutionary Socialist is the monopolist. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Just as the monopolist of a food product often furnishes poison instead of nutriment, so the State takes advantage of its monopoly of defence to furnish invasion instead of protection. Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z A struggle ensued between the monopolists and the excluded, who clamoured for the freedom of the trade. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Numerically, the monopolists are but a small fraction of the people; their great strength lies in the control they have obtained over the business and finances of the country. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z Slim, whose personal fortune is estimated at just under $75 billion, is extolled by some as a market genius and excoriated by others as a Third World monopolist. Slim's Slap: Is Mexico Finally Confronting Monopolies? 2011-04-21T01:03:38Z They were, in fact, the aspiring monopolists of the country. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z The youthful scion of royalty declared himself indignant against the monopolists, and swore to put an end to their exactions; which being duly reported, rendered him more popular than ever. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z It is alleged in defense of the California railroad monopolists that as they do not think it would be lucrative to run a railroad to San Diego, they do not build any. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z The people, united against the monopolists, can elect whom they choose to any state office, and can secure a majority in their favor. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z The State has suffered much at the hands of transportation monopolists. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z The size of the town perhaps warranted another establishment, but Lafond was a monopolist by nature. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z There had been, of course, strong objection on the part of the army of landholders and monopolists who were to be thrown out of their "easy money" livelihoods. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z I have nothing in common with bloated bondholders or pampered monopolists who have enriched themselves with the earnings of the poor. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z As I have said, they are not tramps or "hoboes," but neither are they victims of trusts, monopolists or capital. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z But will the monopolists of money give up their monopoly? A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People 2011-01-22T03:00:14.093Z But again monopolist greed, strong in the commercial cities of England, vetoed, and Burke lost his seat at Bristol for advocating the policy of free trade. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z But what history shows is, over time, what was once a young, exciting new media becomes consolidated, increasingly closed, dominated by a monopolist or an oligopoly. Charlie Rose Talks to Tim Wu 2010-12-29T22:00:00Z These monopolists are essentially dangerous citizens in the fullest acceptance of the word. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z The world’s third-biggest company, measured by market value, is about to discover that the line between cool upstart and ugly monopolist is a very thin one. Hedge Funds Crash, Apple Becomes Uncool in 2011: Matthew Lynn 2010-12-28T00:56:42Z It implies that their industry—which is really the national industry—is not to be carried on at all for their own benefit, but only for the benefit of their employers, the monopolists of money. A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People 2011-01-22T03:00:14.093Z I know my charges are high; but then I am a monopolist to people who are foolish enough to come in here without their proper equipment. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z As each instalment is wrested from the grasp of the monopolists, the remainder becomes at once as precious as was previously the whole: loss of one privilege never prepares them for the surrender of another. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z After being ruined by the greed of the heartless monopolists, she is made to contribute her widow's mite to swell the volume of their riches! The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z In theory, antitrust laws were meant to restrict such acquisitions by a monopolist. Time to loosen Google's grip? 2010-12-15T04:25:02Z In this cabal, the several local bands of robbers—the slaveholders of the South, the iron monopolists, the woollen monopolists, and the money monopolists, of the North—were represented. A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People 2011-01-22T03:00:14.093Z The close ties between monopolists and the government lead to troubling consequences, as when Western Union worked to help Hayes or when major telecommunications companies quietly submitted to the Bush administration's wiretapping schemes. Cautionary lessons in history of information technology 2010-12-03T17:43:00Z The point is that Vince Cable, if he softened his language about the spivs in the City and monopolists in boardrooms, might find industrialists more ready to accept that he really is pro-business. Cable needs to speak softly 2010-09-22T20:14:00Z How insidiously these monopolists began their work of accumulation, which has culminated in a power that not only eludes the law of the land, but defies, derides it! The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Instead of being dominated by two monopolists, the market will be fought over by eight or nine more or less vertically integrated giants. Information technology in transition: The end of Wintel 2010-07-29T10:55:00Z The more recent technology monopolists — in public imagination and government concern, whether or not in legal reality — continue to be profitable and successful. High & Low Finance: France Declares Google a Monopoly 2010-07-01T23:53:00Z Perhaps Apple’s swiftest and most startling transformation from underdog to looming monopolist came in the world of mobile ads, a market the company is just now entering. A Rotten Apple or Just Sour Grapes? 2010-06-23T18:27:00Z For everyone but the monopolists and oligopolists, the market was grossly inefficient and nearly impossible to change. Journalism monopoly was also a market failure 2010-06-15T21:25:00Z And so it would, but if rumors are true, the bribes of the Central Pacific monopolists have more power with some Congressmen than the sense of justice or the rights of communities. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Now Mr. Reback contends there is a dangerous new monopolist in the catbird seat: the search giant . Regulators Are Watching Google Over Antitrust Concerns 2010-05-22T19:13:00Z Old monopolists find themselves outrun by newer companies with no stake in the old ways. High & Low Finance: France Declares Google a Monopoly 2010-07-01T23:53:00Z The coalition also said the new company would have something close to a monopolist’s hand when it came to setting ticket fees. Ticketmaster Joins Live Nation, and an Industry Quakes 2010-04-25T02:20:00Z According to Williams, the fact that its deceit "merely" enabled a monopolist to charge higher prices doesn't constitute illegal anti-competitive behavior. Regulatory failure? Blame the D.C. Circuit. 2010-04-09T04:00:00Z Monsanto says that its licensing shows it is the opposite of a monopolist, encouraging rather than hampering competition. Rapid Rise in Seed Prices Draws U.S. Scrutiny 2010-03-12T01:30:00Z Most acted as comfortable monopolists until only recently. 2010-02-15T11:40:00Z The German farmer, manufacturer, wage-earner, merchant, capitalist, and monopolist may all unite to elect a popular German to office, but they do not unite to give a corporation a monopoly. Races and Immigrants in America No one can argue that a monopolist is impelled by "an invisible hand" to serve the public interest. The Acquisitive Society Owing to the increase of money, and in some cases to the action of monopolists, in others to the increased payments made to authors, book-prices rather rose than fell. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" They are not monopolists; they have only a limited sovereignty, always being subject to the control of the home government. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two; Rich fruit! heaven-planted! never pluck’d by one. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes If he could not actually in person mingle with its joys, his soul, that neither despot nor monopolist could chain, might spread its wings and feast on such delights as my journeyings might furnish. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Federal legislation has been much in the interest of stock-jobbers, speculators, monopolists, so that "corners" have been fostered, and labor has paid heavy and depressing tribute to fatten greedy cormorants. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. He is "down North" endeavouring to open out a trade with the Indians, obtaining a foothold they doubtless call it; his masters, the Nor'-West Fur Company—for monopolists are always sensitive to terms. Seeds of Pine "My dear Babe, do not be such a monopolist," says Brandolin, as he approaches with a cup of tea and a wafer of caviare bread-and-butter. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June He gave me his hand, and smilingly said, "Shipp, I am come to rob you of part of your glory; you are a regular monopolist of that commodity." Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment "We can't have you monopolize 'the handsome giant of the Neosho' all the time," they said, laughing, with many a compliment to the charming young monopolist. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas These jealous and odious monopolist instincts have been the bane of humanity. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy Chronic somnambulists that they are, they took their monopolist way thither in their sleep. The Kempton-Wace Letters Why can these land monopolists afford to wait so long? Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century To these monopolists, any modification of the Anglican settlement seemed a "tyrannical and unjust measure," and they adopted an ecclesiastical arrogance towards their fellow-Christians, which did much to alienate popular sympathies throughout the province. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 Do they increase the number of independent fire-sides?—Rather, do they not wantonly add to the means of monopolists? A Morning's Walk from London to Kew Am I wrong in connecting this individual monopolist idea of My power! The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy The amendment was carried, and business forthwith commenced with an attack upon the monopolists. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. As for the land monopolists, they will find their holdings so burdened with taxes, that they can no longer keep them out of use. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Let it be at once admitted that we are no longer the monopolists of the textile industries of the world to the extent to which we once were. Are we Ruined by the Germans? The method of the political boss, the aristocrat, the self-seeker, the monopolist—even in the use of thugs, private armies, spies, and provocateurs—differs little from the methods proposed by Bakounin in his Alliance. Violence and the Labor Movement The consequence will be the loss of the greater portion of these supplies, and the enhancement of the price of the remainder in the hands of the monopolists and speculators. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Up to 1821 the Bibles of the English monopolists came freely into Scotland, but then a prohibition, supported by decisions in the Court of Sessions and the House of Lords, was obtained. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations We have seen that the monopolist, encouraged by the sympathy of competitive society, endeavors to monopolize administrative and executive functions. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century A handful of monopolists set themselves up as lords of the world and dictate to it the price of goods, to the workingmen their wages and conditions of life. Woman under socialism They accused Mr. Lever of nearly every sort of cheating that can be done by a soap seller, and anticipated every sort of oppression a private monopolist can practise. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism The monopolist can fix the value as high as he pleases, short of what the consumer either could not or would not pay; but he can only do so by limiting the supply. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy There is no class suggested of monopolists of social power who will regulate the rest of the community, as the owner of cattle controls the breeding of them. Is civilization a disease? What had previously appeared to them a ring of rapacious monopolists seemed now an association of worthy philanthropical gentlemen. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses “I guess I wanted to be a monopolist,” confessed David. Polly of Lady Gay Cottage The monopolist classes, without denying themselves anything, and whilst producing comparatively nothing, have piled up an additional eight thousand millions. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Thus a monopolist of corn or rice in a famine can get an exorbitant price for a considerable supply. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production The retaining of this new mastery of man over the quantity and quality of human life, by the communal conscience against all monopolists, is the transcendent feature of the new order. Is civilization a disease? The exercise of authority by these monopolists of natural opportunities drove the actual tillers of the soil, who had given it its value, to desperation. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study This restricted form of municipal ownership is merely a slight concession on the part of the private monopolist to the taxpaying class. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy This writer, like most Socialists, though acknowledging the enormous growth of the national capital of Great Britain, pretends that the "monopolist classes" have not denied themselves anything. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals So the scale of prices fixed by a number of competing firms will generally be nearer to the competition prices than would be the case with the prices of a single monopolist. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production Yours the responsibility now to see that no new chains be forged by bondholders and monopolists for enslaving the labor of the country. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The private monopolist has the upper hand and he is able through the control of transportation, storage, and merchandising facilities, to make handsome profits for the "service" which he renders the consumer. The American Empire I do not sympathise with the Alpine monopolist who would grudge that dear old lady, and others like her, the little train and tramway by which alone such people can penetrate to those soul-stirring scenes. More Science From an Easy Chair According to this pamphlet everyone who is not a labourer is a capitalist monopolist. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals But the Standard Oil Trust was able to control prices, as the producer of some 75 per cent. of the total product, and the practical monopolist over the main area of its market. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production But right in line with these are the landowners, the merchants, manufacturers, landlords, monopolists. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 So quiet, so self-abased, as if she would not for the world attract one glance that might be claimed by her elder sister, who is perfectly willing to be a monopolist of attention. A Black Adonis This is a simple and valuable oil, and not in the hands of any monopolist. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources The real enemy are the monopolists of land and locomotion—the landlord and the raillord who are uprooting the British people from their native soil. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals In all such cases of great elasticity it may pay a monopolist to sell a large number of articles at a low price. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production This sort of smuggling was perhaps excusable, when we consider the grinding navigation laws of the monopolists. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad You see, that old Basque who was killed was a monopolist, too. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West The war is between the people and the monopolist wherever he is, whether he is in the country or in the town. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West I say that the welfare of the nation must be considered before the profits of the monopolists and the wasteful freedom of the small trader. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals In Watt's day, the inventor who applied for a patent was a would-be monopolist. James Watt For it was the assumption of equality implied by Wilson's manner that offended Gourlay—as if mole-catcher's son and monopolist were discussing, on equal terms, matters of interest to them both. The House with the Green Shutters As free-range monopolists you are cumberers of the earth, and all you represent must pass, before this State can be anything but the byword it now is. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Let each one believe himself, if he is young enough to do so, the monopolist of political truth. The School and the World They have been taxed to the extent of more than seventy millions of pounds sterling over and above the real value of the land sold to them by the rapacious land monopolists. Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor Come, Harley!" he cried, with the perfect frankness that usually distinguished him, "we don't permit any selfish monopolists here. The Candidate A Political Romance To-day even the monopolist stands in the midst of such competition, as he can never monopolize the money of the land. Psychology and Social Sanity From the time of George�I. to Queen Victoria, the ascendency of the parliaments has been most marked composed chiefly of nobles, great landed proprietors, and gigantic commercial monopolists. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Yet the Guardian kept on the even tenor of its way; and in proportion to the fury of the monopolists, did the Editor increase his exertions to wrest from them their unjust gains. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada The student of history knows that the monopolist has always been an outlaw. The Price of a Soul Under Socialism such public services as the transportation and delivery of parcels would be in the hands of the people, and not in the hands of monopolists as at present. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg This was a popular movement,—a poor man's protest against the tyranny of a grasping monopolist,—The People vs. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Very little attention was given to education, and the colonists were not permitted to make cotton, woollen, or linen cloth, for fear of injury to the monopolists of the Dutch manufactures. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges The contest of the monopolists of this capital with the workers and producers, that is, the people, is a burning fever which can only end by the healthy triumph of the people. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 I was elected president of the road, and as soon as we get a little track, and an engine, I expect to obtain an exchange of passes with all my fellow monopolists in North America. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic But Socialists have always known that the laws of competitive society do not apply to monopoly, and that the monopolist has an increased power to exploit and oppress the worker. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg Wine, soap, salt, and almost every article of domestic consumption fell into the hands of monopolists, and rose in price out of all proportion to the profit gained by the Crown. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Not rich monopolists, nor prigs demure, Those shriek for freedom, these for prohibition, "Vend the drugged stuff sans scrutiny or condition!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 That has been its general course against the sects and monopolists of religion and opinion which have ever been the persecutors. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 Whatever may be the sins of the company as monopolists of the carrying trade on this coast, justice must award them the merit of having selected a staff of commanders who atone for many shortcomings. Handbook to the new Gold-fields In and of itself the monopoly price corresponds to the monopolist's profit and not to cheapness of sale. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice And if the same principle were extended so that the tax would equal the entire rental value there would be no chance for the land monopolist to exploit the earnings of labor. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 These were not as the "brilliant flashes of silence," such as Sidney Smith noted as delightful improvements in his friend "Tom" Macaulay; for Carleton was never a monopolist in conversation. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman What a pity for the success of the aristocratic monopolists that nature puts clever fellows and fools just in the reverse order! Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Almost all these monopolies employ large amounts of capital in carrying on their business; and in the popular speech, "monopolist" and "capitalist" are often used interchangeably. Monopolies and the People Let us consider next what wages the monopolist in the cases described above will have to pay. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice After that the trade fell into the hands of selfish and unprincipled monopolists, who wilfully misrepresented the nature of this island, and prevailed on the British Government to enact repressive laws, which effectually prevented colonisation. The Crew of the Water Wagtail Powerful financial monopolists like the Fuggers and the Welsers, in alliance with the territorial prince or the national government, were undermining the industrial independence of town and gild. Beginnings of the American People The wealth that generations of unjust monopolists had accumulated was scattered to the winds. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited It is as foolish to decry the wickedness of trust makers as it is to curse the schemes of labor monopolists. Monopolies and the People Suppose that the monopolist has for sale not simply a fixed and definite quantity of a certain article, but something which he can produce in larger quantities as desired. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice But, monopolist though Mrs. Gamp showed herself to be in her manner of holding forth, her talk never degenerated into a monologue. Charles Dickens as a Reader At the present time the device of coincidence is left to its true monopolists, the Society for Psychical Research and the manufacturers of the penny dreadful. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer The Spanish monopolists were ruined by the Revolution, as we have seen in the last chapter. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited But in defence of the especial action of the labor monopolists in forcing wages up to a point above that which competition alone would determine, there is also much to be said. Monopolies and the People And now notice the peculiar relation that is set up between the monopolist's production and the satisfaction of human wants. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Some noted with delight the humbled tone of the old arbitrary monopolists, and heartily backed the invaders. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 It is monopoly which is the keynote; and where monopoly prevails, the greater the injury to society the greater the reward of the monopolist will be.... Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement "Keep 'em, boy, keep 'em," with an indignant glance at the imperturbable fish monopolist. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life We have before alluded to the fact that in the popular speech "capitalist" and "monopolist" are often used interchangeably. Monopolies and the People The seeming scarcity of money, though but the consequence of the increased demand for a circulating medium, was explained, to the disadvantage of the hated monopolists, by a crude form of the "mercantile" theory. German Culture Past and Present If monopolists of New France, through envy, sacrificed Quebec's first claim to the unknown land, Frontenac made haste to repair the loss. Lords of the North Swollen fortunes are to be broken up, together with the power of the monopolists, of "the gamblers in the necessities of life, etc." Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement The minnow monopolist jerked his lines clear of impending entanglement and scowled. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life The monopolist only goes further on this road than most other men can go. Monopolies and the People The rising capitalists of the city, the monopolists, merchant princes, and syndicates, are the theme of universal invective throughout this period. German Culture Past and Present Under the influence of the penal laws the Catholics inevitably acquired the vices of serfs, and the Protestants the vices of monopolists. Historical and Political Essays But they are terrible monopolists; and, frankly, I have no talent for the domesticities. The Great Amulet In commerce, if one producer can undersell all others, he ceases to be a competitor and becomes a monopolist.... Sophisms of the Protectionists There is another class of critics who may complain that the plan proposed leaves too much power still in the hands of the monopolists, and gives the government too small a part in their management. Monopolies and the People Disgusted, the two explorers personally appealed to the Court of France; but there the monopolists were all-powerful, and justice was denied. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom It was the donation of absurd law to monopolists,—to men who procured the titles to lands. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 He considered the gold standard a sort of power press with which the monopolists of the East were trying to squeeze the last drop of blood out of the farmers and workingmen of the South. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 You, Messrs. monopolists, maintain that facts are for you, and that we on our side have only theory. Sophisms of the Protectionists Bob knows nothing of the cant which makes the robber monopolist only the sad victim of forces outside his control. The Patient Observer And His Friends The cargo saved New France from bankruptcy; but the explorers had defied both Church and Governor, and all the greedy monopolists of Quebec fell on Radisson and Groseillers with jealous fury. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Mildmay, a notorious monopolist, yet having associated himself with the ruling party, was still allowed to keep his seat. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Mr. Taylor was a banker as well as a monopolist of army cloth manufacture in the district. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle How has this delusive figure of speech introduced itself into the rhetoric of monopolists? Sophisms of the Protectionists The effect of an enforced monopoly is to drive competitors away, and give the monopolist the whole market on his own terms. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 They tried to induce some of the fishing fleet off Cape Breton to venture to the North Sea; but there the monopolists' malign influence was again felt. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom It was absolutely necessary that they should be the devourers of books if they were to become the monopolists of learning. The Great Book-Collectors Still, the evils were very real, and extorted recognition even from the gang of west country monopolists who strangled for so long the growth of the island. The Story of Newfoundland The English monopolists, on their side, do not fail to exclaim: "What will become of Great Britain in case of war if she depends upon France for provisions?" Sophisms of the Protectionists The same might have been said of the monopolists in the time of King James. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 Two documents relating to Croghan illustrate his extremes of fortune; the one a petition to protect him against imprisonment for debt, the other a complaint against him as a monopolist of the fur trade. The Story of Cooperstown They speak of the profits of the land monopolist, as if they were the fruits of thrift and industry and a pleasing example for the poorer classes to imitate. Liberalism and the Social Problem Up jumped the blanket monopolist, rushed to the window for a breath of air, and while inhaling the ozone I chucked his blankets out of the car door. S.O.S. Stand to! Let religious morality then, if it can, touch the heart of the Tartuffes, the Cæsars, the conquerors of Algeria, the sinecurists, the monopolists, etc. Sophisms of the Protectionists Instead of standing by his accomplice, however, he no sooner saw the wrath of parliament seriously and dangerously roused, than he gave up the monopolist as a victim. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 No one knew better than he how bitterly the monopolists of Quebec would oppose Radisson's plans for a trip to Hudson Bay; but the prospects were alluring. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark I hope you will understand that when I speak of the land monopolist, I am dealing more with the process than with the individual landowner. Liberalism and the Social Problem The "machine" becomes without effective uses, the trade of the politician is rendered undesirable, and the privileges of the monopolist are withdrawn. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum The labor which the monopolists procure us is certain. Sophisms of the Protectionists Is human nature in general, and the nature of the monopolists in particular, sufficiently adaptable to admit of such a change as this? A Critical Examination of Socialism Like most monopolists, they showed a marked tendency to abuse the advantages of their position. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Are we really to be bound to impose the same burden upon the hardly won income of the professional man and the extraordinary profits of the land monopolist? Liberalism and the Social Problem Behind these outer barriers, and seldom affected by even widespread strikes, lies the citadel in which dwell the monopolists. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum When our tax levy is burdened with five francs for the bounty which this monopolist carries off, takes, or demands, what can be more furtive, since so few of us suspect it? Sophisms of the Protectionists The services of these monopolists, he sees and fully admits, would be as essential to a socialistic as they are to any other community which desires to prosper according to modern standards. A Critical Examination of Socialism Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two; Rich fruit! Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist, as a land monopolist, contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is sensibly enhanced. Liberalism and the Social Problem The spontaneous efforts of each individual to increase and to secure the product of his labor would turn the current of production away from the monopolists and toward the producers. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum And after all, just see how much of the appearance of truth this self-denial, which your journals attribute to the monopolists, has. Sophisms of the Protectionists It will be enough to point out that, if it applies to the monopolists of business ability, it applies with equal force to all other sorts of men whatever. A Critical Examination of Socialism They talk loudly, especially about 'conspiracies of monopolists'; they beat upon the table with their fists; and they secrete fragments of their inventions about their persons. The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling And all the while the land monopolist has only to sit still and watch complacently his property multiplying in value, sometimes manifold, without either effort or contribution on his part. Liberalism and the Social Problem But the disappearance of the local monopolist would be predestined. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum With regard to the two big monopolies, Dynamite and Railway, it appears that the Volksraad Commission accepted the private assurances of the monopolists as sufficient warrant for reversing the conclusions of the Industrial Commission. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs It would be difficult to define better in equally brief language the intellectual aspect of that composite mental equipment which distinguishes from ordinary men the monopolists of business ability. A Critical Examination of Socialism But he was one of the patented proprietors, one of the monopolists, a party most deeply interested in the issue, and therefore, perhaps, an incompetent judge in the matter. Records of a Girlhood It is monopoly which is the keynote; and where monopoly prevails, the greater the injury to society, the greater the reward of the monopolist will be. Liberalism and the Social Problem The local land monopolist would have seen his land values diminished. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum How is this abusive trope introduced into the rhetoric of monopolists? What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader Such, in truth, was too long the vicious principle of those monopolists of personal distinction, the mere men of elevated rank. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions The other two—the black vulture and the turkey-buzzard—are monopolists in their peculiar line. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 But for holding what now seems so obvious, the judges were then grossly maligned as acting in the interest of monopolists and land owners, to the injury of the laboring class. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State In every such case, the monopolist's loss would be the producer's gain. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum English monopolists did not fail on their side to exclaim, when the corn-laws were repealed, "What will become of Great Britain in time of war if she depends on the United States for food?" What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader The rich man of America was not in need of conversion, for, in 1886, he had not become a monopolist as yet. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Sunk in silence, out shouted, out talked, outnumbered by office seekers and monopolists. Children of the Market Place But at that time they gave great offence to a large class, and the judges were denounced in unmeasured terms as acting in the interests of monopolists and land-grabbers. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State It would still be as obvious to their consciousness as the glittering pompon on Mrs. Greenman's bonnet that themselves were the consistent and natural monopolists of the favor of their Creator! The First Soprano In commerce, if one producer can undersell all others, he ceases to be a competitor and becomes a monopolist. What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader My Lords, there is a great difference between the East India Company governing India, and carrying on their trade with China as a joint-stock company, and carrying on the same trade as monopolists. Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century Mr. Grant Allen calls it 'a vulgar vice—the national or collective form of the monopolist instinct.' Outspoken Essays A scream of rage went up from the cotton monopolists and industrial barons of the new South. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Their monopolist happened to be one of the richest men in the world. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) The bricklayers swear that the monopolists ought to be brought to the scaffold. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Such a one as a sane Chancellor of the Exchequer would have seized upon, and shaken in the face of “Robert the Devil,” and his crew of “odious monopolists.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 "I seem to require a great deal of rescuing," said the girl, looking up at the monopolist in the art who had so far said nothing. The Burglar and the Blizzard A Christmas Story Cash, the great railroad monopolist of New Lisbon, was in the city. Peck's Compendium of Fun In course of time these shrewd schemers, who are known as monopolists, gathered this liquid air into large tanks and warehouses, and put an exorbitant price upon it. Life in a Thousand Worlds A captain of industry and a splendid monopolist, he dominated the most independent aggregate of men ever drawn together from the ends of the earth. A Daughter of the Snows Fontane later evened the score by classing Storm among the "sacred kiss monopolists." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Another follows openly the trape of a monopolist, with immense facilities for either preventing or authorizing exportation, according as his own warehouses happen to be full or empty. The Roman Question For the ignorant masses, the sense of sin has been worn out by the importance attached to religious and social externals and by the artificial value of the service of a hereditary monopolist priesthood. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Not long after this, when the monopolists saw that they controlled all the liquid air of the country, they had rigid laws passed forbidding the importation of air from any other country. Life in a Thousand Worlds Maize grows in the bottom-lands, and tobacco, which is guarded in the fields by soldiers for the monopolist government. Italian Journeys Enormous wealth in our days is to the monopolist, immense fame to the specialist. The Son of Clemenceau They are obliged to apply to usurers and monopolists, and the governor of the bank is one. The Roman Question |
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