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The 52 pages that link to Monopoly, each with the reason it gives.

• Deadweight lossRelated: A monopolist can restrict output below the level that maximizes total surplus.

• Market failureRelated: Market power can restrict output and raise prices above competitive levels.

• Supply and demandCompared with: A monopolist chooses output strategically rather than taking a market price as given.

• Media concentrationCompared with: Concentration can approach monopoly without a single firm becoming the sole provider.

• GuildRelated: Guild restrictions could limit entry and give members collective control over local trade.

• Perfect competitionCompared with: Unlike competitive firms, a monopolist can restrict output and influence price.

• Price discriminationRelated: A monopolist may use discriminatory pricing to increase profit and sometimes expand sales.

• Rent-seekingRelated: Rent-seeking can preserve monopoly power through barriers that prevent entry.

• Market powerBroader topic: Monopoly is the limiting case of seller market power, though real monopolies may still face constraints.

• Producer surplusRelated: A monopolist’s restricted output and higher price alter producer surplus and total welfare.

• Second Industrial RevolutionRelated: Large firms consolidated industries and prompted public disputes over concentrated economic power.

• MonopsonyCompared with: Monopoly concentrates market power on the seller’s side rather than the buyer’s.

• Creative destructionCompared with: Successful innovators may become entrenched monopolists, slowing the competition that first displaced incumbents.

• Economic rentRelated: Restricted competition can create monopoly rents through prices above competitive levels.

• Anarcho-capitalismRelated: The prospect that a protection provider could dominate rivals challenges the claim that security remains competitively supplied.

• CompetitionCompared with: A monopolist faces no direct seller rivalry within its market.

• Industrial organizationBroader topic: It is the limiting case for analyzing pricing power and output restriction.

• Market equilibriumCompared with: A monopolist can restrict output and choose price rather than take a competitive market price.

• Monopolistic competitionCompared with: It clarifies how far a differentiated firm’s limited market power falls short of a sole seller’s.

• OligopolyCompared with: It marks the opposite extreme from oligopoly in the number of dominant firms.

• Second Bank of the United StatesRelated: Opponents portrayed the Bank’s federal charter and privileges as an unjust financial monopoly.

• Bargaining powerCompared with: A monopoly can create strong seller leverage, but the concepts are not interchangeable.

• Bessemer processRelated: Bessemer’s patent licensing briefly concentrated access to the new method.

• Joseph SchumpeterCompared with: Schumpeter argued that temporary monopoly profits can reward innovation, unlike standard static critiques.

• Market concentrationBroader topic: It is the limiting case of concentration when one firm holds the entire market.

• Natural monopolyNarrower topic: Natural monopoly is one explanation for monopoly, rather than the broader market outcome itself.

• Profit maximizationBroader topic: A monopolist chooses output where marginal revenue meets marginal cost, then charges the demand price.

• First welfare theoremCompared with: A monopolist typically restricts output, violating the price-taking premise.

• OrdoliberalismCompared with: Ordoliberal policy treats monopoly as a threat to market freedom and political independence.

• Robber baronRelated: Critics used monopoly power to explain how industrialists could set terms for competitors and consumers.

• Allocative efficiencyRelated: A monopolist may restrict output below the level that maximizes total surplus.

• Bell SystemNarrower topic: The Bell System became a regulated monopoly in much of American telephone service.

• ProfessionalizationRelated: Professional groups may gain exclusive rights to perform work through credentials or law.

• Chartered companyRelated: Charters could grant exclusive trading rights that excluded competing merchants.

• Market structureBroader topic: It is the limiting case of seller concentration and market power.

• CloveNarrower topic: Colonial powers tried to restrict clove cultivation and trade to maintain high prices.

• DistributismRelated: Distributists oppose monopoly as a form of concentrated economic power.

• Horizontal integrationBroader topic: Extreme consolidation can leave a market dominated by a single firm.

• Benjamin TuckerCompared with: Tucker used the term especially for privileges enforced by the state, not merely business dominance.

• DominateRelated: A monopolist can dominate a market by controlling supply and limiting alternatives.

• Invisible handBroader topic: Market power can weaken the competitive pressures associated with the metaphor.

• Peter ThielRelated: Thiel argues that durable monopolies, rather than intense competition, enable ambitious innovation.

• Aliko DangoteCompared with: His companies’ dominance is sometimes discussed using monopoly claims, which require market-specific evidence.

• Market anarchismRelated: Market anarchists disagree on whether competition alone can prevent durable private monopolies.

• MicroeconomicsCompared with: A monopolist can restrict output and set price above marginal cost.

• Capitalism and FreedomRelated: Friedman’s case for competition must address private concentrations of economic power.

• Carlos SlimNarrower topic: Critics have used monopoly claims to describe Slim’s influence in Mexican telecommunications.

• Ernest OppenheimerRelated: De Beers' market power under Oppenheimer is often discussed through the economics of monopoly.

• James L. KraftCompared with: Kraft’s growing company competed in a market rather than holding an uncontested monopoly.

• Market interventionRelated: Competition policy and price regulation can constrain the power of a dominant seller.