Sentences with phrase «oligopoly of»

Having said that, the cryptocurrency community is fighting back against the oligopoly of the social media giants Twitter, Facebook and Google.

An global oligopoly of companies grew organically and through acquisitions to become dominant in life reinsurance.

He said that on housing, Labour «bet the ranch on the private oligopoly of house builders but it's in their interests to bank land and ration housing so that house prices continue to rocket».

Also, being part of the regulated oligopoly of consumer utilities delivering a core need for people in the United States, they aren't likely to be disrupted by a technology change (in fact, they may benefit from it if it costs them less).

That opacity drives small developers out of urban housing production, leaving an oligopoly of well - heeled, well - connected builders.

Two graduate students taking on the oligopoly of Yahoo, Excite, Alta Vista, etc??)

The government should represent the interests of farmers and consumers instead of the corporate oligopolies of the food and agriculture industry.

Not exact matches

About a generation after small breweries with flavourful beers stormed the oligopoly that controlled the beer sector, craft beers, many of them made in micro-breweries and distributed locally, have become frothy and surprisingly upscale competitors in an industry that traditionally functioned at the meat - and - potatoes end of the alcohol spectrum.

Being a protected oligopoly, our banks have a habit of taking customers for granted.

«It's certainly not that surprising to see Jamie Dimon's [CEO of JPMorgan Chase] comments recently on bitcoin given that [they] control that oligopoly.»

Noting this in the early 1970s, the power of oligopolies to raise prices at will, his solution was a totally planned economy, nationalized industry, with price controls.

Our coverage of the travel and leisure sector continues as we focus on the steadily growing cruise industry and the three publicly - traded companies that make up its oligopoly: Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line.

A 2014 Goldman Sachs analysis about «dreams of oligopoly» used the American - US Airways merger as an example.

Lacavera is a minor celebrity in Canada for having been a serial CEO, most notably of WIND Canada, which briefly challenged the Bell / Telus / Rogers telecom oligopoly.

Common examples would be natural monopolies or oligopolies, razor / razorblade businesses, enduring brands, network effects, high switching costs and economies of scale.

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Disrupting an oligopoly isn't for the faint of heart and we proudly invested the first capital into PillPack.

Before the rise of e-commerce, many brick and mortar retailers enjoyed local monopolies or oligopolies based solely on geography.

Weak antitrust laws enable large corporations to have the power of monopolies oligopolies, though such power actually tends to discourage innovation.

They should not only apply to state - citizen, but also to citizen - citizen relationships In the case of information provision there should be protection against information oligopolies organized by fellow - citizens.

Deregulation is the fig leaf that covers clandestine regulation (in contradiction therefore to the fundamental rule of democracy that demands transparency) by the dominant capital of oligopolies.

Unsurprisingly for someone of his ideological perspective, Martin suggests that the ills of capitalism as it currently exists can be solved by breaking up corporate giants like Google and Facebook — on the grounds that concentrated power is dangerous, and monopolies and oligopolies prevent markets functioning properly.

The main trends I argued against in that essay were the liberal consensus, the persistence of class and the permanence of monopoly and oligopoly.

Robert McChesney has written about how the media operate as an oligopoly through corporate lobbyists, political campaign contributions, government media policies, the control of news coverage by corporate elites, and the enforcement of monopolistic rights for those broadcasters who can make the most profit.

This is a collective flight of fancy that only helps reproduce the geopolitical and economic logics of the existing corporate oligopoly.

Topics covered include perfect competition, oligopolies and monopolies, ways of competing in different markets, risk and uncertainty and how businesses seek to minimise the risks.

Topics covered include: - Costs and Economies of Scale - Revenues - Barriers to Entry - Objectives - Monopoly - Price Discrimination - Oligopoly - Game Theory - Monopolistic Competition - Perfect Competition - Influence of the Internet on Perfect Competition - Contestability - Efficiency

That's why the incumbent suppliers — textbook companies — have been able to protect their oligopoly even in the age of «disruptive innovation.»

The opponents of educational choice are attempting to defend the monopoly of the neighborhood school in a nation in which most monopolies and oligopolies (see the phone company, the post office or newspapers) have come under pressure.

Monopolies (or oligopolies) can be controlled if consumers exercise their freedom of choice.

Those first 3 chapters were marked by monopoly / oligopoly, where only the anointed and the lucky were chosen to participate and then only to be fed upon by the slew of parasites in the publishing world.

Oligopoly: It is a market structure with limited competition and the small number of sellers.

A six - headed oligopoly with nearly the same share ain't that much more pleasant, really, particularly with Murdochs and music industry involved and the whiff of cartel about it.

Currently, big publishing is holding firm with its contracts, the boilerplate of which hearkens back to when the industry was an oligopoly, «a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers.»

The branch of economics includes demand, supply, equilibrium, consumer demand, production, the cost of production, monopoly, oligopoly, market structure, game theory etc..

All of these laws redound to the benefit of bigger corporations who can handle the overhead and whose oligopolies are thereby entrenched, at the expense of smaller competitors and consumers in general.

Clip: A group of debaters, including former New Republic editor Franklin Foer, describe today's book publishing «oligopoly» versus Amazon's monopoly.

Is book publishing an oligopoly, a dinosaur in need of disruption?

In 1992, they were cleared to buy the trusts that were the initial beneficiaries of CMHC's backstop, triggering the consolidation that cemented today's oligopoly.

So let's stick with McKay, given the leaders of Canada's banking oligopoly so rarely expose themselves to scrutiny by the broader public.

They have become almost an oligopoly for a variety of minerals.

Reinsurance of mortality in the present environment is a cozy oligopoly, with one former main player, Scottish Re (spit, spit), badly damaged.

: They're a government endorsed (despite recent complaints) oligopoly (the top 4 airlines control over 80 % of the domestic market), their balance sheets & labour benefits have been restructured, and their current pricing power was unheard of little more than a decade ago.

This company has a big moat; it's part of the life reinsurance oligopoly.

Part of a stable 5 - company oligopoly for life reinsurance.

If the strategy does succeed, how large could the market be that is served, and how big could the margins be as part of an oligopoly?

@Sean: While I don't disagree that many Canadian companies have a nice oligopoly (I hesitate to call it collusion) going, plenty of cheaper options are available in mutual funds, banking and even telecom.

This is largely a product of the oligopoly that is the Canadian mutual fund space, with the 5 major banks taking up the biggest market share.

Another issue, is that of a Monopoly / Oligopoly in Canada vs more competition in the US.

Collusive oligopolies Another key feature of oligopolistic markets is that firms may attempt to collude, rather than compete.