Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jul 2005 11:54 UTC
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2005-07-14
In the *academic sense* there is no such thing as a true monopoly. But then, the academics of economics rarely fits into the real world. In the real world and legal sense, a monopoly (just speaking for the U.S.) is a company that has enough clout in a market to start pushing others around. However, it's not illegal to be a monopoly, but it is illegal to use that monopoly power to break the market and bite the "invisible hand."