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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate!dosgate![richard.anstruther@canrem.com]
- From: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
- Subject: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <199227.3155.6094@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 27 Dec 92 19:37:30 EST
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- -> describe what these people are doing. The pure, market theorists
- -> don't recognise this....which is why much of modern economics is a
- -> crock...especially the New Right variety.
-
- So that those of us in the centre can distribute the blame equally
- in both directions, one should add that people act as individuals,
- not as instances of a particular economic class, anymore than they
- are Rational Actors in an economic sense.
-
- -> > At least in this case there is no shred of evidence for
- -> price-fixing.
-
- I haven't been following this thread all that closely, but I
- don't recall you making the allegation that MS was involved
- in price fixing. This isn't too suprising. Typically a
- company doesn't jack up the prices until _after_ it has its monopoly
- locked up rock solid and, while MS is getting there, it hasn't
- quite arrived. This doesn't mean that MS isn't engaging in
- anti-trust type activities designed to bring about conditions
- where it will be free to inflict large price hikes on a captive
- market.
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