Theodore Roosevelt, son of wealth and privilege, became the trust-busting enemy of corporate monopolists.
Yet Asia's turmoil has done more than merely shift the balance between monopolists and their competitors.
Once the innovators, the mobile carriers are now the quasi-monopolists, and they have shifted their focus to data.
If this were happening in any other industry, the Journal would probably be jeering, not cheering, the wanna-be monopolists.
To the contrary, the antitrust laws are designed to encourage all business, even monopolists, to engage in aggressive competition.
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Finally, classic monopolists restrict output and use their power to lock in consumers.
Only the ex-monopolists at Deutsche Post can be pleased, which many suspect was the point of the wage agreement.
That would shine a spotlight on erstwhile monopolists, speed integration and give consumers the benefits of full competition now.
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They alone organised their work and as monopolists they largely controlled their market.
The current antitrust rules for limiting anticompetitive conduct by monopolists focus on forcing monopolists to share access to their goods or services.
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Classic monopolists increase price, because they have the power to do so.
By bringing small businessmen together as buyers, he has been able to replace the powerful monopolists who used to distribute these goods.
The reason lies in the choice facing each of the separate monopolists.
Monopolists also have no incentive to reduce costs and increase efficiency, because the absence of competition assures them of selling products very profitably.
The local monopolists get 22% of their revenue from access fees.
In countries with open markets, the former monopolists have remained dominant.
Not even an earthquake, it seems, can shake the monopolists' grip.
Foreign cigarette-makers also have to spar with powerful state-owned monopolists.
Managers at monopolists have an incentive to heed those expectations.
Monopolists have to play by different rules than everyone else and one of these was that Microsoft had to not use its monopoly position to push Internet Explorer on everyone.
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The former telecommunications monopolists saw the writing on the wall several years ago when the commission first started to realize that existing 1995 rules were insufficient to increase access to consumers.
They are now monopolists in wireless.
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Mr Das looks back to the rise of Indian business families, some of which often began with enterprising young men outwitting British monopolists, and offers management advice to their heirs, many of them now addled by decades of planning and protection.
Antitrust law is widely accepted to be a tool for protecting consumers against the most damaging practice of monopolists, which is to artificially restrict supply so they can drive up prices and profits, and not a legal weapon for small companies to attack their larger competitors.
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