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Showing 1 to 20 of 330 for “"Monopoly"”.
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Demystifying Racial Monopoly
… of race constitutive of capitalist racial monopoly: historical availability, division of labor, motivation of surplus absorption, and embodiment of false consciousness. Nonetheless, the working class’s immanent limitations and transcendent activities in this paradigm later gave rise to the …
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The theory of state monopoly capitalism
… origin and development of the theory of state monopoly capitalism and its significance for the politics of contemporary Western European Communist Parties. The theory is shown to have its origin in Lenin's interpretation of Marx's Das Kapital, and his assessment that capitalism has entered an …
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Women as peripheral workers: barriers to monopoly sector participation
… status are found in the same proportions in the monopoly and competitive sectors. Although marriage and childbirth appear not to have any effects on the labor market segmentation of women, the labor markets are remarkably stable. Suggestions for future research and an assessment of labor market …
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Downsizing: Personnel Reductions at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939
… a state-owned enterprise, the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, reduced its labour inputs because of changed consumer preferences and mechanization in the 1920s and 1930s. By combining qualitative and quantitative evidence, the study addresses questions about the ways of achieving reductions, …
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Driving toward monopoly : regulating autonomous mobility platforms as public utilities
… system is likely to tend toward a natural monopoly. This view is corroborated by key informants as well as recent industry trends. In order to better anticipate the characteristics of this emerging platform, I look back at the developmental trajectories of two classic public utilities - …
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When the truth hurts: ordinary selling price regulation in a monopoly
… quality? In this thesis we analyze a two-period monopoly model to study the welfare effect of ordinary selling price (OSP) regulation. In the model, quality is observed by informed consumers who buy in the first period. However, consumers who arrive in market in the second period are not able to …
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The problems of monopoly and oligopoly in the American tobacco industry
… and the Continent is given. The formation of a monopoly by James B. Duke in establishing the American Tobacco Company, and the price policies, product differentiation, and advertising expenditures used in the development of the Trust is discussed. The Sherman and Clayton Anti-trust Acts are …
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'Amageddon': the unholy trinity of class monopoly rent in the Emerald City
<p>Intense redevelopment has steamrolled across Seattle’s South Lake Union and Belltown neighborhoods, home to the headquarters of the world’s largest ecommerce corporation, Amazon. After the corporation established a presence in what is now referred to as ‘Amazonia’ in 2007, the surrounding urban …
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Intertemporal Equilibrium Models of a Monopoly and the Analysis of Tax Effects
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T22:03:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405656.pdf: 6584684 bytes, checksum: acc908da9d53efe8f96fa15d7e6c6cb0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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996, moyu, and involution: tech work in the age of platform monopoly
Over the past decade, consumer internet companies such as Google, Facebook, Tencent, and Alibaba have come to symbolize a new era marked by dynamism, entrepreneurialism, and innovation. This has led us to believe that these internet companies play an outsized role in the creation of economic value …
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Antitrust in Times of Information Technology: An Analysis of Big Tech Monopoly Cases
<p>The information technology industry is one of the most rapidly growing yet concentrated markets existing today. Big Tech monopolies and their increasingly anticompetitive behavior posits risks for competition, technological innovation and consumer welfare. This ranges from price discrimination, …
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Risk, Returns to Scale and Monopoly Power in Horizontal Mergers: Theory and Evidence
… A multi-period model of the firm incorporating monopoly power and returns to scale is used to relate microeconomic variables to capital market variables. A new measure, combining the theoretical factors, is derived from simple accounting and financial management ratios. The empirical results …
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The Impact of Competition on Cost Allocation in a Multi-Market Monopoly: Telecommunications
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7820953.pdf: 8983921 bytes, checksum: da9605d04d1eab929e70cf0ca0c098fa (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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The Dutch Media Monopoly: A critical-historical analysis of journalism in the Netherlands
Taking the American tradition of political economy of the news media as a starting point, this dissertation examines Dutch journalism throughout the twentieth century, with a focus on the present. The argument is that the conclusion drawn by American scholars like Ben Bagdikian, Robert McChesney, …
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The development of decision-making mechanisms under a bilateral monopoly in the mining industry
… mining industry under conditions of bilateral monopoly. The mining industry is a broad segment of the economy, with thousands of companies and millions of people employed. This makes it essential to understand how price decisions are made within the mining industry, as such decisions influence …
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Revision Cycles For Economics Textbooks: An Application of the Theory of Durable Goods Monopoly
… textbook markets as an example of durable goods monopoly. Textbooks are protected by copyrights, and from a student's point of view, different textbooks are not good substitutes because students wish to use the textbook adopted by their instructors. Therefore sellers have market power. Textbooks …
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Gender Affirmative Monopoly: Who is "Trans* Enough" to Receive Gender Affirmative Treatment In Norway?
… thesis elaborates on the current practice and monopoly of the National Treatment Center for Transsexualism, which covers gender affirmative treatment through universal health care in Norway. This thesis examines this topic in the context of a broader debate regarding trans* people’s rights in …
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