Monopoly and Competition

This lecture by Mark Thornton was presented at the 2012 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama. 

Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture by Tom DiLorenzo was presented at the 2011 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama.

Anyone reading modern day trade agreements would not be surprised to discover that they focus less and less on reducing import duties, and more on developing national industries, promoting exports, and ensuring domestic policy space.

The NCAA ensures there is no functioning job market for athletes and no competition to which students might go seeking higher pay, writes Andrew Sy

Few topics in recent years have aroused as much interest among libertarians as intellectual property. What place, if any, would IP — patents, copyrights, trademarks and the like — have in a libertarian society?

Most economists would, given the opportunity, offer some proposal to reform antitrust policy.  Some would contend that this or that aspect of antitrust law should be eliminated or more weakly enforced.

In almost every discussion of the FCC specifically, or American spectrum policy in general, someone will assert that radio spectrum is a unique res

Although bits and pieces of "Competition as a Discovery Procedure" began to appear in English as early as the 1970s, the translator discovered that, by the time he assumed emeritus status in 1998, no full translation of the original 1968 Kiel version was yet extant.

One is not intellectually free to use the neoclassical theory of the firm at one time to explain economic action, and to discard it at another.  If the theory of the firm does not apply in all explanations of firm behavior

Contestability theory makes a case that the pricing behavior of a multi-product natural monopolist is disciplined by the threat of entrepreneurial entry.