Jacob Solomon's group - M2015(B)

This article deals with the oligopolies of cable TV and that Apple would be the company to open them up.

This article talks about price discrimination. In Australia, the government things that the prices are higher than anywhere else in the world ( prices charged by foreign companies). In my opinion, this is because these major companies had the ability to discriminate, due to income, which is found to be higher and the geographical destination. It is a third degree discrimination. All the required conditions for discrimination were available. The companies have ability to set prices, as they are in an oligopoly competition. The consumers in other parts in the world are not likely to by the product and sell it to Australians. And price elasticity in Australis is found to be higher due to the higher income they have, 

This article talks about how the new government is supposed to get rid of the governments monopoly on coal

After 75 years of barring foreign investment into her oil fields, the Mexican government (particularly President Enrique Pena) is set to repeal laws that had previously ensured a state monopoly of Mexican crude oil. As one of the biggest crude resources in the Western Hemisphere, this move poses a dramatic increase in North American crude exports, which will rise to second in quantity behind only Saudi Arabia. The bill to end the monopoly was approved by the Mexican Congress in mid-December and could see foreign investment eventually rise to approximately $15 billion per year. However, potential issues arise in the form of material delays, local opposition to drilling and a lack of pre-existing infrastructure.

This article discusses how monopolies are not efficient and real competition would be more efficient.

The greatest supplier of the Internet behaves in the anti-competitive way as a result that they want to swall up second biggest company on this market in the US. We have here typical situation of inefficiency on monopolistic market. The supplier provide services for high price as well as the provided services are well below the standards in comparison with other advanced countries.

In this article it tells why the government prefer that NFA continue monopoly over rice importation.

This article gives an example of the state as a monopolist and its incomes.

This article demonstrates how the BBC monopoly was ended in 1955. It shows that monopoly is a bad thing and that it actually harms the consumer ( in this case the people who watched Tv). BBC's monopoly was somehow used to change people's point of view or to make them think in a certain way. This demonstrated the negative sides of a monopoly. 

The article describes a situation in which a company that is a monopoly becomes a monopsony. It also shows that a merge of two separate companies is very dangerous to the society.

This article discusses the ramifications of the Comcast - Time Warner Cable merger in America. The two biggest internet and cable providers in the country are set to merge effectively creating one monopoly firm. The market has the charactersists of a monopoly in the fact that new firms can not really enter, even huge phone providers like Verizon and Sprint are having to stop rolling out fibre optic broadband, meaning internet speeds for there customers are set to remain slow. The cable industry is often a typical example of a monopolistic market and it looks set to stay this way. 

This is an interesting article about monopoly. In the article, it is argued that as beer also gets allowed to be sold in convenience stores and not only in the beer store which has been a monopoly of beer, then there will be a rise in price. The government argues that it would have gained revenue if sold in convenience stores, as a study said that privatization in Alberta and British Columbia led to higher prices in those provinces.

The article discusses the problem of job allowances and other benefits that discourage people from working. Germany is an example of such a country and its policy is described in the article.

This article explains a new development that allows gasoline and air to be combined to create a more fuel efficient eco friendly car

This article talks about how the efficiency of shipping should be increased, by multiple big shipping companies forming a pact.

This article published in the Telegraph regards the purchase of up-and-coming Israeli mapping program Waze for an estimated $1bn. The move is one that serves to increase Google's monopolistic stance in the digital mapping industry, as the purchase restricts the availability of effective substitutes to map services owned by Google.

This article is about colleges merge ring. you can see that it is very similar to businesses merge ring. The cost will be cut and performance will be better. The article also shows that the impact i the short run will not be big, however, it i will start to show in the long run. this is exactly the case with any other merger of any type of business. 

This article discusses how apple may become a monopoly.

This article shows the best current example of perfectly competitive market which occurs in India on the market of buses, trucks, lorries and light vehicle. It is caused by the great number of companies which take part in this market.

this article wants to tell us that the copyright monopoly is something bad. That it slows down the development in the future. Personally, I would say that this article is not thought through since it is contradicting and use language like "can fuck off and die". The writer aims a lot on the right of duplicating, and that copyright monopoly stands in its way for that. I would say that duplicating something that a company has put a lot of money and time on, would not be morally right, because the one that is duplicating it will spend a very little fortune and time on doing this compared to the real producers. It is actually a pretty bad article, it feels like the writer tries to promote the duplication right of copying movies, programs, etc. and then share it on for example pirate bay.

This article details how competition in the shipbuilding market is promoting firms to strive to be both market and energy efficient. The article relates to the economic concepts of market efficiency and theories of competition and monopoly. It also briefly relates to the concepts of externalities of production too, discussing measures imposed by governments like fuel sulphur limits.