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The ten largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds. Jeremy Rifkin
The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life. J R Hicks, Econometrica 1935
But Microsoft had billions of dollars in the bank which let it do something extraordinary: rather than charging money for its web browser as Netscape had to, Microsoft was able to give Internet Explorer away for free, bundled and seamlessly integrated into Windows operating system. Download: The True Story of the Internet, Discovery 2008
It’s 1998 and the United States Department of Justice ... launched an anti-trust lawsuit against Bill Gates’ company. ibid.
The Bank [of America] was given a monopoly over the American currency. William T Still, The Money Masters, 1996
The idea that we need state monopolies in order to look after the poor is obviously untrue. Martin Durkin, Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story 2010
One of the worst fallacies in the field of economics – propagated by Karl Marx and accepted by almost everyone today, including many businessmen – is the notion that the development of monopolies is an inescapable and intrinsic result of the operation of a free, unregulated economy. In fact, the exact opposite is true. It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible. Nathaniel Branden, Common Fallacies Against Capitalism
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. Nancy Pearcey
Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil. Noam Chomsky
Local economic independence cannot be preserved in the face of consolidations such as we have had during the past few years. The control of American business is steadily being transferred, I am sorry to have to say, from local communities to a few large cities in which central managers decide the policies and the fate of the far-flung enterprises they control. Millions of people depend helplessly on their judgment. Through monopolistic mergers the people are losing power to direct their own economic welfare. When they lose the power to direct their economic welfare, they also lose the means to direct their political future. Estes Kefauver, senate hearing 1947
They have monopolised everything that it is possible to monopolise; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolised the daylight and the air is that is not possible to do it. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist