Monopoly, Competition, and Antitrust
Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture by Tom DiLorenzo was presented at the 2011 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama.
Monopoly and Competition
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The Politics of “Free” Trade Agreements
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 Racket
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
Scarcity, Monopoly, and Intellectual Property
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 Non Sequitur in the Revival of Monopsony Theory
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,
Notes on the Translation of F.A. Hayek’s Competition as a Discovery Procedure.
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.
A Note on Cartels
Cartels, characterized by activities such as simultaneous price increases or decreases, or virtual price identity at almost the same time, without explicit communications or agreements, have long been discussed.
Monopoly Prices
The substitution of a monopoly price for a competitive price is tantamount to a serious restriction of the working of the most characteristic principle of the free enterprise system, i.e., of the sovereignty of the consumers.
Pounding Square Pegs into Round Holes: Another Look at the Neoclassical Theory of Predatory Pricing
One is not intellectually free to use the neoclassical theory of the firm at one time to explain economic action, and to discard it at another. If the theory of the firm does not apply in all explanations of firm behavior
Antitrust Myths: Speak Truth to Power
The author explores during a lecture that all antitrust regulation is economically inefficient and morally wrong and all of it—the laws and the enforcement agencies—should be thrown out.
