Discover how monopolistic markets like utilities function in the U.S. Learn about the historical and modern monopolies that shape today's economy and prices.

From tech companies to airlines and streaming services, monopolies are becoming more problematic around the world.

For the past year, The American Conservative has provided a platform to write about monopolies and the problems of concentration. This is the last piece in the series. On these pages, we have been ...

Learn how discriminating monopolies charge different consumer prices, maximize profit through pricing strategies, and explore examples illustrating their market impact.

The past year and a half has been, to put it mildly, a weird time. Americans have grappled with the COVID-19 crisis, as well as with the associated economic fallout that revealed cracks in a number of ...

A monopoly happens when a business dominates an industry or sector and can therefore control price changes and create entry barriers for competitors. It’s often used as shorthand in the eyes of the ...

Free markets left to themselves in a capitalist context are great at producing wealth, but will inevitably tend to concentrate that wealth in ever fewer hands, leading to increasing inequalities of ...

Can a company be monopolistic even though it does not exclude competition? Last week the U.S. Supreme Court said yes. In a unanimous decision which greatly broadened the definition of monopoly, the ...