Quotes About Monopoly

Por definición, los Estados son monopólicos, pero recursos tales como personas, ideas, tecnologías y capitales se trasladan de una jurisdicción a otra, generando condiciones de una cierta competencia, donde la jurisdicción que posea buenas instituciones atraerá recursos, mientras que la que no las tenga los expulsará.

Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: Concentrated Power of the Big Press. Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. Governmental control of the press. Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. Big Business mentality. Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. Social blindness.

A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

in 1444, Cosimo founded Europe's first public library, the Library of San Marco, and thus began to challenge the Church's long monopoly of learning.

The financial alternative to classical economics calls itself "neoliberalism," but it is the opposite of what the Enlightenment's original liberal reformers called themselves. Land rent has not ended up in government hands, and more and more public services have been privatized to squeeze out monopoly rent. Banks have gained control of government and their central banks to create money only to bail out creditor losses, not to finance public spending.

UPS had trackable packages for years while the government post office monopoly routinely lost mail and millions in taxpayer dollars.

The Leviathan reduces violence by asserting a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, thereby replacing what criminologists call "self-help justice"—in which individuals settle their own scores and disputes, often violently (such as the Mafia)—with criminal justice, leading overall to a decrease in violence.

Me parece ridículo el monopolio que los castellanos de Castilla y países asimilados quieren ejercer sobre la lengua literaria, como si fuese un feudo de heredad. Ni aun la anarquía lingüística debe asustarnos; cada cual procurará que le entiendan, por la cuenta que le tiene.

There are a few monopolies that are allowed to exist with the government's blessing. One is the United States Postal Service, better known as the post pffice.

Love Songs (section III) - 1882-1966 We might have coupled In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment Or broken flesh with one another At the profane communion table Where wine is spilled on promiscuous lips We might have given birth to a butterfly With the daily news Printed in blood on its wings.

El Estado —escribió Max Weber— es una asociación que reivindica el monopolio del uso legítimo de la violencia.»

Monopolios, sistemas políticos monopartidistas, dictaduras militares, sociedades que dan preferencia oficial a una raza o una confesión determinada, mercados inundados por la publicidad de un producto dominante, cárteles como la OPEP, sistemas políticos como el de Estados Unidos, en el que dos partidos controlan el sistema electoral

En casi todo el mundo los gobiernos han vendido las empresas de propiedad estatal, han deshecho monopolios, han liberalizado sus regímenes comerciales y de inversión, y han mejorado el entorno económico para los emprendedores. Un

All right, all right, so I love Lubbock. I never claimed to have exquisite taste. I'll be there with the diehards to the end, trying to explain, "No, this is a griddle with some Monopoly houses on it: this is Lubbock." Still, the life of all us Lubbock-lovers would be a lot easier if the Chamber of Commerce hadn't adopted the slogan "Keep Lubbock Beautiful." Keep?

The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ("the public domain"), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail...the State relies on control of the levers of propaganda to persuade its subjects to obey or even exalt their rulers.

Albert Jay Nock wrote vividly that the State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. . . . It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien. Nock

Albert Jay Nock wrote vividly that the State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. . . . It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.

Thus, America, above all countries, was born in an explicitly libertarian revolution, a revolution against empire; against taxation, trade monopoly, and regulation; and against militarism and executive power.

Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

The church doesn't have a monopoly on kitsch or sentimentalism, but if you want to find it, the church may well be the easiest place to start.)

Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way that Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible, and therefore irrelevant.