oligopolies

But these laws did not prevent the formation of semimonopolies—or what are better known as oligopolies, that is, companies which control not all but a major share of the market for a particular product.

Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

But these laws did not prevent the formation of semimonopolies—or what are better known as oligopolies, that is, companies which control not all but a major share of the market for a particular product.

Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

But these laws did not prevent the formation of semimonopolies—or what are better known as oligopolies, that is, companies which control not all but a major share of the market for a particular product.

Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

But these laws did not prevent the formation of semimonopolies—or what are better known as oligopolies, that is, companies which control not all but a major share of the market for a particular product.

Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

In economic terms oligopolies destroy the only valid reason for having a free market.

Poli-Oligarchs 2008

In Public Library of Science (PloS) Medicine, an online journal, John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece, and his colleagues, suggest that a variety of economic conditions, such as oligopolies, artificial scarcities and the winner's curse, may have analogies in scientific publishing.

Food &Health Skeptic 2008

Hariri had tried to abolish the exclusive agency law, but even he could not prevail against the oligopolies that had run the country since its founding.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

Democracy got weaker, oligopolies got stronger, the rich got richer, and the rest of us got left behind.

Lynn Parramore: Amity Shlaes's Forgotten History: When Unions Go Bust, We All Do Lynn Parramore 2011

Analysts and lawyers say big Chinese state-owned companies can be especially aggressive in dealing with foreign companies because of their government backing and the enormous clout they wield within China in industries that are often oligopolies.

In China, Some Firms Defy Business Norms Andrew Galbraith 2011

Because of economies of scale with large corporations there is a strong tendency towards monopoly or at least oligopoly that libertarian almost always seem to ignore that requires a countervailing power and that can only be a government large (strong) enough to police the monopolies - oligopolies.

Technological Determinishm, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009