Almost always. It is possible that a private firm could have a monopoly of some wholly unprofitable activity but it would probably discontinue it or else not exist for much longer.
Unprofitable but necessary activities are often passed to some arm of government. For example, local government will often have a monopoly of fire-fighting services.
Monopolies can make excessive profits by over-charging consumers.
Monopolies can make excessive profits by over-charging consumers.
Monopolies
cartels, monopolies, trust, and horizontal and vertical integration all share the goal of
Yes, they can. Since they have a low amount of competitors. This means the competitors won't be eating up their profits. They can exercise the method of putting a higher price at a lower output, therefore people who really need the product are forced to buy it. or example, if Apple was a monopoly they could increase the price of a mackbook to $4000 and people would still buy it and therefore they are increasing their profits. Monopolies could also put some of their profits in research and development so they will be non contestable and the consumers will appreciate the advanced technology therefore their growth will increase. This will increase or maintain their abnormal profits.
Monopolies can make excessive profits by over-charging consumers.
Monopolies can make excessive profits by over-charging consumers.
Monopolies
cartels, monopolies, trust, and horizontal and vertical integration all share the goal of
Yes, they can. Since they have a low amount of competitors. This means the competitors won't be eating up their profits. They can exercise the method of putting a higher price at a lower output, therefore people who really need the product are forced to buy it. or example, if Apple was a monopoly they could increase the price of a mackbook to $4000 and people would still buy it and therefore they are increasing their profits. Monopolies could also put some of their profits in research and development so they will be non contestable and the consumers will appreciate the advanced technology therefore their growth will increase. This will increase or maintain their abnormal profits.
They were used to take over small business, and form monopolies.
These were monopolies and trusts. The owners of these wanted to be the only distributors so they could raise the prices as high as they wanted.
These were monopolies and trusts. The owners of these wanted to be the only distributors so they could raise the prices as high as they wanted.
Monopolies were, and still are, organisations usually businesses, that have no competition for the product or service they sell. Consequently they could set the price they wanted. Many countries passed legislation to limit this, not always successfully.
I think it is because people get jealous that others are more successful than them, so they convince an army of idiots to try to make monopolies illegal.
Eliminated competition
monopolies were bad