They cover a broad range: from the teachers' union to Pemex, the state oil monopoly, and Telmex, a private telecoms near-monopoly.
Then there is the telecoms business: thanks to a private near-monopoly, owned by Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, Mexicans pay between four and ten times as much to be connected than do people in developed countries.
Zumwinkel guided the company from state-owned monopoly to private operation in a postal market that is now fully liberalized.
In the 1990s, at the insistence of Massimo D'Alema, leader of the biggest left-wing party, the centre-left government held off passing laws to break Mr Berlusconi's virtual monopoly on private television.
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Brazil hopes to turn its tardiness in privatising Telebras to advantage, by avoiding the mistakes made in countries such as Mexico and Argentina, which granted a seven-year monopoly to private telecoms operators.
Handing such a valuable monopoly over to private interests did not go down well with the netizens.
One doesn't want to give too much monopoly power to private suppliers of water, so that they can then use that power to lobby government for special favours.
While most other rich countries chose to make betting on horse-racing a state monopoly, Britain legalised private bookies in the 1960s.
Mr Vajpayee has ended the monopoly and will allow private Internet service providers to do their own deals with the operators of undersea cables.
President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto wants to shake up the sector by opening up state oil monopoly Pemex to more private investment, hoping it will help boost production.
Many of these involve monopoly power, public and private, political and economic.
Leaving only the intractable core of that natural monopoly to be either public or private and regulated.
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The data monopoly is about to end, and private operators will soon carry Internet traffic via satellite.
Guatemala has hired private security companies because it is unable to exercise monopoly of force over its own territory.
Private enterprise has already figured out a way around the monopoly: electronic communication.
The state-owned monopoly that provided jet fuel refused to service private carriers on the same generous terms given the big three.
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This is becoming increasingly urgent: the boss of Pemex, the state oil monopoly, gave warning this week that unless private investment was allowed, Mexico's oil exports could drop by two-thirds by 2006.
Rather as in the economic sphere competing private companies tend to produce wealth and activity, whereas monopoly firms have the opposite effect, so in the religious sphere competing sects generate a ferment of activity and increased levels of belief, whereas state churches produce indifference.
As it is, taking the project away from a successful private firm, AirAsia, and giving it to a government-owned monopoly hardly seems reason for cheer.
Last but not least, here is my video on the origin of central banking, which starts with an explanation of how currency evolved in the private sector, then describes how governments then seized that role by creating monopoly central banks, and closes with a list of options to promote good monetary policy.
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The monopoly of the dollar in the United States was achieved by taxing private and state currencies out of existence in the 19th century.
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Private doctors complained of a breakdown in the supply of the JE vaccine, the monopoly of a local trading company.
The emergence of private couriers did not in any way create economic chaos or hardship as the Post Office monopoly was challenged.
Imagine, for instance, if governments had a long-standing monopoly over restaurants, and that laws were passed marginally liberalizing this and allowing some private restaurant attendance.
The same logic applies to public subsidies for any good or service where producers enjoy significant monopoly power: Direct provision of public goods has market forces on its side, while subsidies for private purchases work against the market.
Just like any other competitive private market for any other good or service, Hayek would answer, which is a lot better than a government monopoly.
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