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Comment by trappist

Economist Israel Kirzner insisted that monopoly analysis is only applicable when the possibility of competition is eliminated, either legally or by the producer's sole control of the total supply of a resource necessary for the production of a good or service, and that the term should therefore be defined as such. In which case Amazon is not a monopoly, and we shouldn't be surprised to see continually falling prices and increasing quality.

http://rationalargumentator.com/issue118/Kirzner3.html

parent trappist 7 years ago

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