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Monopoly

The game that has sold 200 million sets was born to teach its players about the evils of capitalism.

No country is so obsessed with the idea that monopoly is evil as the United States. The response of other industrializing societies to the development of economic hegemonies has been to regulate them, not to break them up.

The unexpected consequences of J.P.Morgan's deal to create U.S. Steel, which controlled 60% of the US market, have vibrated through every decade.

 

AT&T protected its interests with the fiercest vigilance, and thereby helped bring itself down.

When MCI, the company that broke the monopoly that AT&T had on long-distance telephony in the United States and Canada, was sold recently, it went for $22 billion. That’s not bad for an operation that, less than three decades ago, was having trouble borrowing $35,000.

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