On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> UB>> 'inevitable' - always worked out this way so far, I'm extrapolating.
>
> I.e., you claim that every market that is existing long enough and isn't
> heavily regulated is by now monopolized?
There is a world of difference between "every market ..is monopolized" and
"monopolies arise in a free market".
You persist in mis-interpreting what I write, and then responding to your
own strawman. I don't know whether this is intentional or not, but it
makes the whole discussion uninteresting.
> Pretty weird conclusion. Rather
> contradicting my knowledge about the world surrounding myself.
Continuing with what actually wrote - I guess in the world that surrounds
you monopolies such as Bell (mentioned earlier in this thread) and
Microsot do not exist. Fine.
>
> UB>> I was drawing a distinction between two kinds of monopolies.
> UB>> Monopolies that arise in weakly regulated environments (free
> UB>> market being an example of such an environment) are very rarely
> UB>> restricted. The anti-trust trials are restriction after the
> UB>> fact.
>
> If you mean by 'restriction' government regulation, by definition your
> phrase is true. You just said 'if they aren't regulated, they aren't
> regulated'. Yup. So?
It is not true by definition. Israeli law can declare a company a monopoly
even when it was not initially set up as one and apply restrictions to it.
Thanks,
Uri
http://translation.israel.net
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