Monopoly and Competition

Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture by Tom DiLorenzo was presented at the 2011 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama.

Anyone reading modern day trade agreements would not be surprised to discover that they focus less and less on reducing import duties, and more on developing national industries, promoting exports, and ensuring domestic policy space.

The NCAA ensures there is no functioning job market for athletes and no competition to which students might go seeking higher pay, writes Andrew Sy

Few topics in recent years have aroused as much interest among libertarians as intellectual property. What place, if any, would IP — patents, copyrights, trademarks and the like — have in a libertarian society?

The standard theory of monopsony originated with Joan Robinson in her The Economics of Imperfect Competition (1933). This standard theory describes employers as facing upward-sloping supply curves of labor,

This article provides a new synthesis between the strategic management literature and Austrian capital theory.  The resource allocation process plays out in the context of differing subunit preferences

Rothbard realizes that the economy is not competitive, that it is shot through with elements of monopoly. The left-wing Chamberlinians used this as a beautiful handle to combine with the Marxists

Most economists would, given the opportunity, offer some proposal to reform antitrust policy.  Some would contend that this or that aspect of antitrust law should be eliminated or more weakly enforced.

Using Mises’s concept of economic calculation, this paper explains why conglomerates are frequently observed in emerging economies across the world.

Although bits and pieces of "Competition as a Discovery Procedure" began to appear in English as early as the 1970s, the translator discovered that, by the time he assumed emeritus status in 1998, no full translation of the original 1968 Kiel version was yet extant.