Monopoly
idea · 5 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
monopoly · monopolies · exclusive privilege · exclusive privileges · monopolium
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Monopoly, named and condemned as harmful whether practiced within a state or over the whole world.
ut scilicet totius mundi monopolium faciant populi Hispani?
The Rights of War and Peace
Exclusive control of a market or commodity, discussed as sometimes lawful and sometimes unjust
It is not every kind of monopoly that amounts to a direct violation of the laws of nature.
A monopoly also may, in some cases, be established by individuals, provided they sell at a reasonable rate.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The recurring evil of exclusive legislative privilege by which a favoured class extracts wealth or power from the community, analyzed across trade, banking, and intelligence.
and moreover to deprive agriculture and all other occupations except one, of good prices for their labours, by expelling a great portion of the currency by which these prices are enhanced, and granting to a few individuals an exclusive privilege to coin the very same kind of currency proposed to be expelled.
A monopoly of intelligence by any class or combination would be a tyranny, if it could be effected;
The advocates of the protecting-duty system assume the title of “friends to national industry,” formed their reasonings upon the maxim, that “the productiveness of labour is increased in “proportion as it is directed by intelligence,” and endeavour to sweep away all the arguments which are adverse to the system, by asserting that the “miseries of labourers in Britain and “China result, not from ma …
The Law of Intellectual Property
The concept of exclusive control over a right or good, argued by the author to be identical with rightful property when the thing is one's own production.
And it is only to such monopolies that the word monopoly is usually applied.
There is no more reason or justice, in applying the word monopoly, in an odious sense, to an invention, which one man has produced, and therefore rightfully owns, than there would be in applying the same term to any other wealth whatever, which one man has produced, and therefore rightfully owns.
This objection of monopoly, when applied to inventions, is mere sound without meaning.
The Genius of the Common Law
Exclusive control over a trade, craft, or commodity, consistently opposed by common law doctrine in the passage.
That reservation was that the privilege must not be abused so as to create a monopoly.
Accordingly, when monarchs in search of revenue took on themselves to grant monopolies, they found themselves in acute conflict with the people and with the lawyers;
Monopoly is exactly what the law will not give him.