#monopolies

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

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The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check. ↗

— John Bates Clark

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