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This article deals with exploitative monopolies, their causes and cure and with such ideas as laissez-faire economics, monopoly, regulations, and socialism.
http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/monopoly.htm

Monopolies are bad, and that includes union monopolies like the one in education...but some organizations are struggling to give teachers more choice.
http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/A...hive/1998-2000/CUL19990628a.html

The seeds of liberty were planted in fertile soil in 18th-century America. Since then, the American Experiment has encouraged liberty and prosperity. But it also has been overrun by the vine-like spread of government intervention into fields like education.
http://www.sepschool.org/edlib/v2n2/dav_gol.html

How Intel betrayed the information community when it settled with the US Federal Trade Commission.
http://www.cato.org/dailys/03-26-99.html

Your government is a kind of monopoly, too, with all the problems of any other monopoly. What should be done about it?
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/4124/governme.html

What are American taxpayers getting for all those dollars spent on public education? Not nearly enough, according to education analysts.
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/edu/pdedu/pdedu61.html

The post office monopoly on delivering letters will fade away but the agency will maintain a secure place in America, former Postmaster General Marvin Runyon predicted.
http://www.onlineathens.com/1998/041598/0415.a3mail.html

Extensive multi-year research has led the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) to the conclusion that the gold market is being overtly manipulated; and that the relationship of available physical gold to outstanding gold loans poses a serious risk to the U.S. and global financial systems.
http://www.lemetropolecafe.com/campaign.html

A few huge corporations control many markets and industries, to the detriment of society. This is an analysis of the problem.
http://online.bcc.ctc.edu/econ100/ksttext/oligoply/oligoply.htm

Why are so many unions so corrupt? Because laws grant them a monopoly on people's jobs...
http://www.nilrr.org/corruption.htm

Position paper by Tom DeLay arguing that government-mandated monopoly production and pricing for electricity be ended.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/HL582.cfm

Personality and management in media conglomerates. From Business Week online.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwda...ct1999/nf91007d.htm?scriptFramed