How can Al Gore and his cohorts continue to trash school choice and defend the public school education monopoly?
This summer the French parliament is due to end the monopoly over public sales of France's 460 auctioneers as part of a European reform.
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.
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 lesson: The public sector no longer has a monopoly on government.
Their chief grievance was the monopoly of trade and public office held by the Spanish-born, at the expense of locally born criollos.
It is also doubtful that public goods are best provided by a monopoly.
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The decision on what finally makes it onto Anglesey Monopoly will be taken after a public vote and survey on the island, which starts on Thursday and will last a month.
The system was established as a trade-off that provides a public benefit: the state agrees to grant a limited monopoly to an inventor in return for disclosing how the technology works.
Because water supply is a natural local monopoly, any privatisation requires a strong and permanent public regulator.
The lack of any monetary rule to constrain the Fed and the lack of any convertibility principle, as existed under the classical gold standard, means the Fed has a monopoly on base money (currency held by the public plus reserves), the supply of which is determined by a small group of Fed officials who presume to be able to forecast the future.
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One suggestion is not to count as government spending some investment by public-sector companies (an exemption that already applies to Petrobras, the oil monopoly).
Also, discussion of the drone program is in the public interest as it's a form of warfare that is unlikely to remain an American monopoly for much longer.
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