Power RE: Authority of the marketplace?

[John D. Giorgis]

At 04:15 PM 7/16/01 -0700 Nick Arnett wrote:
>Our
>system seems to be concentrating power (no pun intended) in a relatively
>small number of big energy corporations, and I think it inarguable that the
>result is less innovation.

Do you have any evidence for this?   Either the first part, or the second?

After all, the largest corporations in the world are GE and Microsoft, last
I checked. 

JDG

P.S. Oh yes, and the largest energy corporation is not Royal Dutch/Shell or
ExxonMobil, but is actually Aramco - the national oil firm of the Saudi
govt.  

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