What the dickens? Nov 18, 2009
This is the area where the PC identified monopoly profits as books that are prescribed by various education authorities and students are a captured market. Did the PC actually look at the level of sales and what the authors of those books received in royalties over time. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Competition is gouging phone users Nov 3, 2009
It is technological change, leading to investment, financed by monopoly profits that drives down costs and improves services. Prices can be regulated. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Ring in the changes Oct 1, 2009
After all it could call the Government's bluff to split by hiving off a T4, which would contain its landline phone network with its monopoly profits. And debt. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
The Beginning of the End for Newspapers May 30, 2009
Blinding publishers to their decline, Davies writes, were the monopoly profits many surviving newspapers commanded, giving them no incentive to take journalistic and business risks. The increases in circulationmodest considering the absolute increase in population and the demise of competing dailiesalso convinced publishers that they were wild successes. (Slate)
The Great Newspaper Crackup of 1918 Apr 14, 2009
In the usual progress of a joint-operating agreement, two newspapers suck up the monopoly profits until the weaker one is finally allowed to die. In the last decade, the Post-Intelligencer, the Rocky Mountain News, the Albuquerque Tribune, the Cincinnati Post, and the Birmingham Post-Herald have all suffered this fate. (Slate)
Consumers are more important than stuffing drug-company coffers Feb 8, 2009
So it made a deal that has become all too common in recent years: It took its competitors aside and offered a compromise under which the companies would agree not to market a generic version for another nine years - in return for a share of Solvay's monopoly profits. Hooray for negotiation. (Daily Iowan, IA)
