Standard oil was a monopoly, which is a crucial fact because the razors-and-blades theory works best when only one vendor is selling the blades (or the oil).

标准石油公司是一家垄断型企业，这是一个关键性的事实，因为“剃刀和刀片”理论在只有一家刀片(或石油)卖家的前提下才会产生最佳效果。

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Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.

不像在金本位时代的日子里，现在的联邦储备银行已经没有任何破产可能了；整个国家里只有它拥有合法伪造货币的权力(凭空造钱)。

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We find that unit price mechanisms bring no less expected profit to the monopoly in both optimal mechanisms and in standard auctions.

我们发现单位价格采购机制在最优拍卖和标准拍卖下都会给垄断者带来更大的期望效用。

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Dan Gillmor has a nice column outlining what Facebook would like to do: become a monopoly or standard utility.

FORBES: Why We Cannot Rely On Facebook Becoming A Monopoly To Boost The Stock Price

In a sense, Amazon.com has been applying a number of strategies regular companies have deployed for years, including Standard Oil, the famous monopoly of the 1880s.

FORBES: Don't Cry for Amazon.com

Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. had abused its monopoly power to keep others from competing and ordered the company to divide into 34 separate companies.

WSJ: Sherman Stirs: U.S. Revives Section 2 of the Antitrust Act