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Not Just Fun and Games.(Microsoft antitrust case)
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The U.S. Justice Department recently handed down a decision declaring that Microsoft Corporation is a monopoly. In business, a monopoly is the total control of a product or service -- in Microsoft's case, the personal computer (PC) software industry. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson wrote that Microsoft used its great wealth and monopoly power to force competitors out of business. What is the cartoonist implying by using an octopus figure as Microsoft's Monopoly game piece? Should Mic...
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Game still has a Monopoly on family fun - and feuds
Yorkshire Post
; ... silk, the British Secret Services arrived on the doorstep of the Leeds factory, commissioning the Monopoly producers to make maps which were light, didn't rustle and which could be easily sewn into the uniforms of every British airman. And later in the conflict ...
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Monopoly's staying power: why the most famous board game in history continues to flourish.(Culture and Reviews)
Reason
; En route to selling a mind-blowing 250 million copies worldwide since it was first mass-produced in 1935, Monopoly has generated a story more epic and entertaining than playing the game itself. From its prehistory as The Landlord's Game (created and circulated by critics of American capitalism in
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Rent-seeking firms, consumer groups, and the social costs of monopoly
Economic Inquiry
; Do consumers' consumer-surplus (CS)-defending activities increase the social costs of monopoly compared to when consumers are inactive? Given just one rent-seeking firm, consumers ' CS-defending activities generally increase the social costs of monopoly, but given two or more rent-seeking firms,
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Monopoly fun facts ...
Charleston Gazette
; Charles B. Darrow invented the game of Monopoly, in which players acquire wealth by purchasing properties and building houses and hotels on a game board. According to www.hasbro.com, Monopoly dates to 1934, when Darrow of Germantown, Pa., showed his game to executives at Parker Brothers. The
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TYLER, TOO; Monopoly Reborn in Telecom Business
Forward
; Tyler, Gus Forward 03-04-2005 In 1984, the courts made a historic decision in America's longtime battle to "bust the trusts." The American Telephone and Telegraph Company was ordered to break up into many small pieces to restore competition in our "free enterprise" society. Now it appears that the
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