How does one reconcile a belief in the power of economic dynamism — that it takes “maximum competitive intensity” in business to really drive growth and innovation — with a deep skepticism that what ...

Radiotherapy delays hide a deeper flaw: an imbalanced market where public hospitals are overwhelmed and private capacity goes ...

Three firms dominate the target date fund market, constituting an oligopoly. One firm – Vanguard – owns 72% of the passive TDF market, constituting a monopoly. Oligopolies and monopolies are bad. They ...

Sri Lanka’s downstream petroleum industry has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past few decades. Once a state-controlled monopoly dominated entirely by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation ...

As markets mature, they trend toward oligopoly or even outright monopoly. There isn’t much difference, because an oligopoly has several members instead of just one. Examples include electric power ...

Currently, some of the most notable oligopolies in the U.S. are in film and television production, recorded music, wireless ...

The normally rather good David Cay Johnston has a rather puzzling piece about the Charter, Time Warner possible deal going on. It's puzzling because he's right that monopolies are not something that ...

First, let's go over the conventional understanding of a monopoly, compare it to an oligopoly, and then compare that to a cartel, so that we're all on the same page. A monopoly, conventionally and ...

Put on the market a few years ago by famed old Parker Bros. Inc. was a game called Monopoly, ingeniously designed to appeal to the baldest acquisitive instincts. It was an instantaneous success. Last ...