monopoly
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How an Italian orphan built a $27 billion monopoly that controls the brands, the stores, the lenses, and the insurance.
Competition makes capitalism work. A new method for measuring it may be the holy grail of economic regulation.
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You’d never confuse them for the Rockefellers. But you also wouldn’t have curling without ’em.
Markets tend to favor unequal distributions of market share and profits, with a few leaders emerging in any industry.Winner-take-all markets are hard to disrupt and suppress the entry of new players by locking in market share for leading players.