An oligopoly is an intermediate market structure between the extremes of perfect competition and monopoly. Oligopoly firms might compete (noncooperative oligopoly) or cooperate (cooperative oligopoly) in the marketplace. Whereas firms in an oligopoly...

A MARKET or INDUSTRY consisting of a small group of sellers, often five or less. This term was originally coined by Sir Thomas More in his Utopia (1518). An oligopolistic type of market structure is usual in modern science-based industries, e.g....

An oligopoly is a market form in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers (oligopolists). The word is derived from the Greek for few sellers. Because there are few participants in this type of market, each oligopolist is...

LEON HADAR The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-06-2003 Think oligopoly, not monopoly By LEON HADAR Date: 07-06-2003, Sunday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday NOT LONG AGO, during the swinging Nineties, we were celebrating the coming era of globalization. The "content providers"...

NEW YORK -- Sometimes, it seems, business is all about buying up the competition or selling out to it. Without exception, not a week - - hardly a day, in fact -- goes by without a major announcement. The big news this past...

The Apple iPhone has enjoyed favorable reviews since its recent debut, but it came in for some rare criticism on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.The phones, which cost between $500 and $600 _ are usable only on AT&T Inc.'s wireless network and will remain that way...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon won't be fighting for migration reform when he meets with President Bush next week. Instead, he will be be spelling out what he intends to do to keep Mexicans at home.Calderon, who was inaugurated on Dec. 1, has pledged to take...

Brief essay on the emerging airline oligopoly in the U.S.