On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Jeff Wright wrote:
This is just flat out wrong. No one "owns" a market. You are expressing
propriety where none exists.  How do you own an abstract concept?

I think you have a problem understanding what economists call the Commons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_commons

Markets are a common good from which we all benefit and which we must all protect (or suffer the consequences).

When one company essentially owns a market it is called a monopoly and is an abuse of the Commons.


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