Monopolization ≈ Monopolization
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Consultocracy and its discontents: A critical typology and a call for a research agenda Open
In the past few decades, many sector‐specific case studies have been conducted on the use of consultants in the public sector. However, the overall picture of the qualitative changes facilitated by consultants remains fragmented, and a com…
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The Argentine portion of the soybean commodity chain Open
Since the 1990s the soybean crop has increased in the Southern Cone of Latin America (LA). During this time, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay have become soybean producers. This phenomenon was influenced by the rising soybe…
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Self-governing prisons: Prison gangs in an international perspective Open
This paper finds qualified support for the use of Skarbek’s (2011, 2014) governance theory to understand the emergence of prison gang-like groups in Kyrgyzstan, Northern Ireland and Brazil. However, Skarbek’s (2011, 2014) governance theory…
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Concealed data practices and competition law: why privacy matters Open
The degradation of consumer data privacy in the digital environment causes objective detriment to consumers and undermines the competitive process. Consumers are frequently unaware of the extent to which their personal data is collected an…
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Competition and antitrust in Internet markets Open
The rapid rise, enduring growth and success of Internet markets and e-commerce platforms have spurred a lively and sometimes heated debate among academics and policy-makers: do Internet markets foster competition or are they prone to conce…
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Applying Indigenizing Principles of Decolonizing Methodologies in University Classrooms Open
This case study examines ongoing work to Indigenize education programs at one Canadian university. The history of the academy in Canada has been dominated by Western epistemologies, which have devalued Indigenous ways of knowing and set th…
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Applying Indigenizing Principles of Decolonizing Methodologies in University Classrooms Open
This case study examines ongoing work to Indigenize education programs at one Canadian university. The history of the academy in Canada has been dominated by Western epistemologies, which have devalued Indigenous ways of knowing and set th…
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The Material Conditions of Platforms: Monopolization Through Decentralization Open
In this article, we add research on technical integration and dependency to the theories of platformization. Our research seeks to understand how platforms have been able to technically integrate themselves into the fabric of the mobile ec…
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The platformisation of digital payments: The fabrication of consumer interest in the EU FinTech agenda Open
This paper investigates, through a qualitative analysis of official documents, how certain imaginaries about technology filter into EU policymaking, allowing or accelerating the transformation of payment infrastructures into the platform e…
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Data Donation: How to Resist the iLeviathan Open
Large corporations are attracting criticism for their quasi-monopolist role in the digital data domain. It has been argued that they are no longer regular market participants but have become de facto market regulators against whom public a…
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Standards? Whose standards? Open
Building standards, regulations and labelling schemes are instruments for reducing energy demand and carbon emissions, linking policy ambitions to market-based responses. In practice, their effects are complicated. In this paper we show ho…
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Rapid Dissemination and Monopolization of Viral Populations in Mice Revealed Using a Panel of Barcoded Viruses Open
Enteric viruses initiate infection in the gastrointestinal tract but can disseminate to systemic sites. However, the dynamics of viral dissemination are unclear. In this study, we created a library of 135 barcoded coxsackieviruses to exami…
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Normative Paradoxes of Privacy: Literacy and Choice in Platform Societies Open
Privacy scholars, advocates, and activists repeatedly emphasize the fact that current measures of privacy protection are insufficient to counter the systemic threats presented by datafication and platformization (van Dijck, de Waal, and Po…
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Pole and Hungarian Cousins Be? A Comparison of State Media Capture, Ideological Narratives and Political Truth Monopolization in Hungary and Poland Open
Pole and Hungarian Cousins Be? A Comparison of State Media Capture, Ideological Narratives and Political Truth Monopolization in Hungary and Poland
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Adaptation reduces competitive dominance and alters community assembly Open
A growing body of theory predicts that evolution of an early-arriving species in a new environment can produce a competitive advantage against later arriving species, therefore altering community assembly (i.e. the community monopolization…
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The Effective Competition Standard: A New Standard for Antitrust Open
America’s failing antitrust system is, in large part, to blame for today’s market power problem. Lax antitrust law and enforcement have allowed troubling trends like corporate consolidation to remain unchallenged, further embedding our ske…
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On the economics of the Android case Open
We provide an economic rationalization for concerns that restrictions in the contracts between Google and manufacturers of mobile devices based on the Android operating system have anti-competitive effects. We extend recent insights on tyi…
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Chimpanzees monopolize and children take turns in a limited resource problem Open
Competition over scarce resources is common across the animal kingdom. Here we investigate the strategies of chimpanzees and children in a limited resource problem. Both species were presented with a tug-of-war apparatus in which each indi…
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Platforms, Power and the Antitrust Challenge: A Modest Proposal to Narrow the U.S.–Europe Divide Open
Big platforms dominate the new economy landscape. Colloquially known as GAFA [Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple] or FAANG [Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google], the high tech big data companies are charged with using the power o…
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Violence Entrepreneurs, Law and Authority in Colombia Open
Local power in Colombia has been profoundly restructured since the mid‐2000s, with the partial demobilization of paramilitary groups and the state's direct presence at the local level. This has led to the articulation of claims to new righ…
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Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem Open
Jeffersonians call for a new era of antitrust enforcement to break up giant firms. These populist and localist critics of leading technology platforms, megabanks, and health care behemoths are decentralizers. They believe that, in a just s…
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Territoriality and Conflict Avoidance Explain Asociality (Solitariness) of the Endosymbiotic Pea Crab Tunicotheres moseri Open
Host monopolization theory predicts symbiotic organisms inhabiting morphologically simple, relatively small and scarce hosts to live solitarily as a result of territorial behaviors. We tested this prediction with Tunicotheres moseri, an en…
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The Platform Conjuncture Open
The paper engages the problematic of platform capitalism in the company of Fernand Braudel. Platform capitalism is accordingly located in the opaque zone of the so-called antimarket, “where the great predators roam,” with its characteristi…
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The political economy of state regulation: the case of the British Factory Acts Open
This paper examines the British Factory Acts (enacted 1833–78) to articulate a political economic theory of policy formation. It argues that the British Factory Acts stabilised conditions for both capital accumulation and social reproducti…
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The Morality of Monopolization Law Open
Congress enacted the Sherman Act in 1890 and prohibited, among other practices, monopolization. To prove monopolization, the government and other plaintiffs must show that a firm both possessed monopoly power and engaged in bad conduct. In…
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The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age Open
The vast amount of product information available to consumers through online search renders most advertising obsolete as a tool for conveying product information. Advertising remains useful to firms only as a tool for persuading consumers …
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Correlated paternity measures mate monopolization and scales with the magnitude of sexual selection Open
Indirect measures of sexual selection have been criticized because they can overestimate the magnitude of selection. In particular, they do not account for the degree to which mating opportunities can be monopolized by individuals of the s…
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Creative economy in Russia: New trends Open
The article substantiates that creative industries are one of the factors of sustainable development and contribute to the transition to an innovative economy. The concepts of creative industries, economic characteristics of the Russian cr…
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Digital transformation of the banking system of Russia with the introduction of blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies Open
The article analyzes the problems of the development of modern banking business in Russia in the context of the growing share of large banks in the market. The aim of the work is to determine the need for the introduction of new advanced t…
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Testing for Multisided Platform Effects in Antitrust Market Definition Open
Because market definition is frequently outcome determinative, it is both a central and contested part of antitrust litigation. Recognition of business methods known as multisided platforms presents the challenge of whether and how to inco…