It’s been a while since we have treated ourselves (and we hope you) to one of our occasional pieces on applying basic economic concepts to problems in higher education. It’s been a while since we have ...

Defense and aerospace giant Raytheon announced plans last week to merge with rival defense and aerospace giant United Technologies, creating a huge corporation, albeit a bit smaller than Boeing, and ...

The normally rather good David Cay Johnston has a rather puzzling piece about the Charter, Time Warner possible deal going on. It's puzzling because he's right that monopolies are not something that ...

Here is another crazy, anti-competitive regulation to blame on alcohol wholesalers: Under Texas law, brewpubs may serve beer or sell it directly to the public for home consumption, but they are ...

Mary Hall is a editor for Investopedia's Advisor Insights, in addition to being the editor of several books and doctoral papers. Mary received her bachelor's in English from Kent State University with ...

How does one reconcile a belief in the power of economic dynamism — that it takes “maximum competitive intensity” in business to really drive growth and innovation — with a deep skepticism that what ...

Put on the market a few years ago by famed old Parker Bros. Inc. was a game called Monopoly, ingeniously designed to appeal to the baldest acquisitive instincts. It was an instantaneous success. Last ...

Three firms dominate the target date fund market, constituting an oligopoly. One firm – Vanguard – owns 72% of the passive TDF market, constituting a monopoly. Oligopolies and monopolies are bad. They ...

Can a company be monopolistic even though it does not exclude competition? Last week the U.S. Supreme Court said yes. In a unanimous decision which greatly broadened the definition of monopoly, the ...