monopolies

The exceptional rights of corporations, statutes of apprenticeship, and all those laws that restrict, particularly employments, the competition to a little number than may usually enter into them, a kind of bigger monopolies, and could typically, for ages together, and in a whole classes of employments, keep up the market ...

By privatizing state-owned monopolies and deregulating whole industries, governments the world over have brought market forces to bear on electricity, telecommunications, and other economic activities formerly carried out in the public sector. This increased market pressure has in turn raised productivity as organizations in once-sleepy fields apply performance-enhancing tools long ...