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| 04417. COMPETITION AND MONOPOLY IN THE ENERGY INDUSTRIES. Very thorough, sophisticated study of competition (and the lack of it) in energy, focusing on petroleum. Includes detailed history of the international oil cartel, why gas pump prices are always the same, price control and allocation programs in oil refining since 1973, competition in the coal industry; antitrust laws and why they haven't been able to break up oil monopolies, porblems of legal and economic definitions of competition, whether market power should be illegal, proposed solutions (removal of gov. controls or breakup of oil companies) and why they won't occur, need to prevent a total energy-source monopoly. 25 pages, 58 footnotes, 0 bibliographic sources. |
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