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Blog09/27/2013Peter G. Klein

In our latest video for The Mises View, Peter G. Klein discusses the demise of Blackberry and how the market, not regulators, should pick technology winners and losers.

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Land Monopoly

Big GovernmentMonopoly and CompetitionPrivate Property

Blog07/12/2012 Mises.org

"There are two types of ethically invalid land titles: "feudalism," in which there is continuing aggression by titleholders of land against peasants engaged in transforming the soil; and land-engrossing, where arbitrary claims to virgin land are used to keep first-transformers out of that land...

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Bookstores in Trouble

Monopoly and CompetitionValue and Exchange

Blog03/21/2008Karen De Coster

Sadly, Borders Group, Inc. is in trouble and it's up for sale. More and more of these companies continue to drop as consumers pinch pennies on wanna-have but don't-need items. I listened to analysts...

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Dominick Armentano and Ron Paul on Monopoly

Monopoly and Competition

Blog02/18/2008Jeffrey A. Tucker

From 1983

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Patent Hypocrisy

Legal SystemMonopoly and Competition

Blog02/15/2008Stephan Kinsella

It always galls me when I see limousine liberals send their kids to fancy private schools while supporting public school; or Congressmen exempting themselves from their own wage and hour legislation.

IP laws are no different. Congress enacts laws protecting imaginary things, with...

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Live by the Sword...

Monopoly and CompetitionValue and Exchange

Blog12/18/2007Stephan Kinsella

Am I unlibertarian for hoping this guy wins? I mean, live by the sword, die by the sword, right? These companies clearly actively pursue, support, and employ government monopolies (patents) and use them to squelch competition. If this happens to violate federal anti-trust law, is this a tragedy...

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Et Tu, Opera?

Monopoly and Competition

Blog12/13/2007Peter G. Klein

[Cross-posted at Organizations and Markets]

Opera is an innovative company that makes a fine web browser and has a devoted following. I use Opera...

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Europe's Internet Troubles

Monopoly and Competition

Blog12/04/2007 Mises.org

Internet access is one of the main drivers for economic and social development. No wonder that the wide availability of broadband access, as one of the main indicators of technology advancement of the economy, is shaping the agenda of governments. Everyone demands broadband access. However,...

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Legal SystemMonopoly and Competition

Blog11/20/2007Jeffrey A. Tucker

At least, according to law professor John Tehranian. He has detailed how he alone...

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FTC and Intel

InterventionismMonopoly and Competition

Blog10/22/2007Ninos P. Malek

Here we go again with real competition being portrayed as anticompetitive. The front page of the San Jose Mercury News reads, "FTC declines to probe Intelâ€ because the head of the FTC is not moving forward with requests by Intel competitor AMD and lawmakers to look into illegal...