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A | Help i don't understand what a monopoly is?? |
Ok, i have to do this assignment but i still don't understand what a monopoly is. And how are they formed?? what is an example of a company that is a monopoly? |
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Lance
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A monopoly is where you control everything and if someone else wants it, they have to pay dearly for it.
Example: Back in the 80's, AT&T controlled everything that had to do with phones. They were the only ones who owned the phones, had the networks etc. If you wanted a phone, you had to go through them. You rented your phone from them, bought your phones from them, used their networks. After the Government broke them up into smaller individual companies, that completed against each other, then you got sprint, SBC, Pacific bell, World Com, etc. Plus, now you can buy phones from even Wal-mart and you own it. You can use any network you want. Welcome to free enterprise.
Sometimes it takes the Government stepping in to break up monopolies, or to keep them from forming in the first place. This keeps compitition going.
As far as what is a monopoly today? Maybe Microsoft? |
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well,a monopoly is a company that controlls that whole business (I.E.:Vectren Energy) |
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A monopoly (from the Greek language monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service, in other words a firm that has no competitors in its industry. Monopolies are characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods. [1]
Monopoly should be distinguished from monopsony, in which there is only one buyer of the product or service; monopolies often have monopsony control of a sector of a market. Likewise, monopoly should also be distinguished from the phenomenon of a cartel. In a monopoly a single firm is the sole provider of a product or service; in a cartel a centralized institution is set up to partially coordinate the actions of several independent providers (which is a form of oligopoly).
A government-granted monopoly, or legal monopoly is sanctioned by the state, often to provide a greater reward and incentive to invest in a risky venture. The government may also reserve the venture for itself, which is called a government monopoly.
If a monopoly is not protected from competition by law, then it is subject to competitive forces. However, with enough market share, a company or group can partially plan and control the market through strategic product updates or lower prices - potential competition can be thwarted, while demand for the dominant company's output can be preferentially developed. Hence, within free economies, planned sub-economies can arise. |
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Monopolies are enterprises that operate without any competition. For instance your electric utility. These still have some strictures as they are overseen by the Public Utilities Committee and have to apply to them before they are allowed to raise their rates.
There may be other monopolies in private enterprise that may or may not be sanctioned by the government as such. Frequently companies want to buy out their competitor(s), but there are laws that govern this activity. They will be investigated on whether this can be expected to reduce competition in the marketplace before permission is given to go ahead.
In some cities there may be a taxi cab monopoly, but they would be regulated by the city government as to how much they can raise their fares, etc. Same goes for internet providers. |
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Maria
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it's one one person, group of people, or company owns the whole business. like if all the banks in the country were Community Trust Banks then the owners of those banks would have a monopoly over the banking business
they are usually formed when the owners of a business become rich and buy out their competitors like if the local mcdonalds bought out the dairy queen next door and turned it into a mcdonald's and did the same with the arby's across the road until all the restaurants in the town were mcdonalds |
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cabezacalva2003
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A monopoly is a business that has such a strong control over a market that it is able to keep competitors from entering that market. As a result, the monopoly can charge high prices and make high levels of profit. If competitors were able to enter the market, then the competitors would set their prices lower to take business from the monopoly. Standard Oil is a great example of a monopoly, because the company controlled a vast amount of the oil industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Just look on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil |
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The idea of capitalism is that companies compete with one another for customers. This keeps them from charging whatever they want, for instance, because the customer can always buy it from some other company. They compete on price, service, quality, etc. etc.
The thing about competition is that where there is competition there are eventually -winners-. When one company gets far ahead of the competition, it is able to force its competitors out of business. Or buy them out. This is a natural result of competition.
Well when that happens, when there's only one company selling whatever it is or providing the service, that company suddenly doesn't have to compete, to keep its costs down so prices can be kept down, to innovate new products or services. That's a monopoly. Years ago (late 1800s) there were several monopolies, controlling steel, railroads, oil, etc. The only one like that today today is Microsoft. If you buy a computer, unless it's a Macintosh, you have to buy Microsoft Windows. Microsoft behaves the way they do because they have no real competition.
Today monopolies aren't allowed, but our govt. is corrupt such that big corporations are still allowed to run whole industries. Every big industry, wherever there are billions of dollars to be made, there are no more than 3 or 4 giant corporations that own them. Aviation, health care, energy, broadcasting/newspapers, electronics, whatever it is, there are no more than 4 big players, each very powerful. They work together sometimes to fix prices. That's called an 'oligopoly'. |
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