Wirtschaftlichkeitslehre

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Identifikator:: 1777655390

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-178507

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kobatsch, Rudolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/1013687159

Title:: Wirtschaftlichkeitslehre

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Österr. Staatsdr.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: IV, 200 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 9. Rationalisierung des Verkehrswesens

Collection:: Economics Books

112 POLITICAL ECONOMY To complete this chapter a few remarks may be offered as to the various sorts of monopoly which are found in the world. Monopolies may be classified into natural, social, legal, and voluntary. Natural mono polies arise out of the limited sources of some natural products. Social monopolies are occa sioned by the peculiar relations of certain businesses to the social economy. For instance, it might not be possible for two remunerative railway lines to be laid down connecting two places ; and, even if it were, two lines would be less economical than one line. Again, competing gas companies cannot be permitted to lay their pipes in the same streets. Many social monopolies are now in the hands of public authorities. Legal monopolies are those maintained by law like patents and copyrights, which are defensible on the ground that without them much valuable inventing and writing would be so scantily rewarded as to be in effect discountenanced instead of encouraged. Many of the social monopolies enjoy legal support. Voluntary monopolies arise mainly out of combination. Among them we may distinguish the monopolies which leave much of the individuality of the combining units untouched, and those which destroy it. The

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