What has gone wrong with America is not a random visitation of fate. It is the result of forces that have assumed control of the American system... These forces are: militarism, monopoly, and the mass media... Mass media monopolies control people by their control of information... And who can deny that we are a nation addicted to television and the constant flow of media? And not a few of us ar...

Critical resource supply chains are vulnerable to manipulation because of the un-substitutability of their goods. When a monopoly controls all or part of a market, it has the ability to profit from a reduction in supply of a critical resource. We model this complex adaptive system (CAS) using an agent-based model (ABM) and investigate a strategy to mitigate the potential for exploitation of a m...

This article addresses the contemporary issue of balancing the need for patent protection for intellectual property with the resulting restriction of public access to new technology. The author argues that patent law protects private property rights rather than creating monopolies. Additionally, the author discusses how restricting access to patented technology, such as pharmaceuticals, can aff...

As the possibility of effective competition is thought to arise in industries that were formerly characterized as natural monopolies, pressure by some customers and /or potential entrants is brought to bear on political and regulatory institutions to deregulate economically certain aspects of these industries, and to allow market pressures to substitute for regulatory oversight as a means of re...

Traditional DEA does not take into account the environmental variables when analysis the electrical energy efficiency. In order to weigh the objective and subjective factors’ impact on industrial electrical energy efficiency, this paper attempts to analyze the China's 2011 industrial electrical energy efficiency step by step using DEA optimization model. The results showed that, electrical ener...

The public policy of the United States is broadly in favor of competition. Our antitrust laws are premised on the idea that in the absence of such legislation private interests would seek to create monopolies, fix prices, restrain trade, and stifle competition. Moreover, the federal government, as well as the states and municipalities, has laws mandating competitive bidding on government contra...

Why should patents be granted on genes? This question is a provocative and troubling issue currently facing society. Looking at the commercial realities of gene patents, I conclude that on balance their effect is to retard, rather than to stimulate, both scientific and economic progress. The monopolies awarded by patents on genes as novel chemicals are not therefore in the public interest. Soci...