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In economics, government monopoly (or public monopoly) is a form of coercive monopoly in which a government agency is the sole provider of a particular good or service and competition is prohibited by law. It is usually distinguished from a government-granted monopoly, where the government grants a monopoly to a private individual or company.

A government monopoly may be run by any level of government - national, regional, local; for levels below the national, it is a local monopoly. The term state monopoly usually means a government monopoly run by the national government, although it may also refer to monopolies run by regional entities called "states" (notably the US states).

Examples In many countries, the postal system is run by the government with competition forbidden by law in some or all services. Also, government monopolies on public utilities and railroads have historically been common, though recent decades have seen a strong privatization trend throughout the industrialized world.

In the United States the police system is a monopoly.

In Scandinavian countries some goods deemed harmful are distributed through a government monopoly to reduce the harmful effects. For example, in Finland, Norway and Sweden, government-owned companies have monopolies for selling alcoholic beverages. In Finland, government has also a monopoly to operate slot machines.

Governments often create or allow monopolies to exist and grant them patents in order to help grow a nation. This will limit entry and allow the patent-holding firm to earn a monopoly profit from an invention-a reward for developing the new product. Without it incentives would fall.

Health care systems where the government controls the industry, such as the British National Health Service, are sometimes referred to as government monopolies.http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html

See also

• crown corporation
• nationalization
• Salt commission
• government-granted monopoly
• coercive monopoly
• natural monopoly
• monopoly
• alcohol monopoly

References In economics, government monopoly (or public monopoly) is a form of coercive monopoly in which a government agency is the sole provider of a particular good or service and competition is prohibited by law. It is usually distinguished from a government-granted monopoly, where the government grants a monopoly to a private individual or company.

A government monopoly may be run by any level of government - national, regional, local; for levels below the national, it is a local monopoly. The term state monopoly usually means a government monopoly run by the national government, although it may also refer to monopolies run by regional entities called "states" (notably the US states).

Examples In many countries, the postal system is run by the government with competition forbidden by law in some or all services. Also, government monopolies on public utilities and railroads have historically been common, though recent decades have seen a strong privatization trend throughout the industrialized world.

In the United States the police system is a monopoly.

In Scandinavian countries some goods deemed harmful are distributed through a government monopoly to reduce the harmful effects. For example, in Finland, Norway and Sweden, government-owned companies have monopolies for selling alcoholic beverages. In Finland, government has also a monopoly to operate slot machines.

Governments often create or allow monopolies to exist and grant them patents in order to help grow a nation. This will limit entry and allow the patent-holding firm to earn a monopoly profit from an invention-a reward for developing the new product. Without it incentives would fall.

Health care systems where the government controls the industry, such as the British National Health Service, are sometimes referred to as government monopolies.http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html

See also

• crown corporation
• nationalization
• Salt commission
• government-granted monopoly
• coercive monopoly
• natural monopoly
• monopoly
• alcohol monopoly

References

Government monopoly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In economics, government monopoly (or public monopoly) is a form of coercive monopoly in which a government agency is the sole provider of a particular good or service and ...

Government-granted monopoly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In economics, a government-granted monopoly (also called a "de jure monopoly") is a form of coercive monopoly in a government grants exclusive privilege to a private individual or ...

Government: an uncontrollable monopoly?
Your government is a kind of monopoly, too, with all the problems of any other monopoly. What should be done about it?

CEPR Discussion Paper Abstracts
The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost ...

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Musical copyright terms 'to stay'
If the UK government decides not to support copyright equalisation, then the music industry will have to continue its campaign in Europe," he said.

A Government-Enforced Monopoly - Acton Institute PowerBlog
Let’s engage in a little thought experiment. How would you feel about the following scenario? 1) The government bans all activities associated with Industry X because it ...

Public internet threatened by private telcos • The Register
One possibility, he guessed, is the internet collapsing into "a government-regulated monopoly" where one company controls the whole thing. Likewise, McKinney said there were serious ...

SW Radio Africa News Story - News story
The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to delay hearing a case against the broadcast monopoly held by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation after government challenged the ...

Datamonitor - British government not to tolerate monopoly player in ...
The British government has warned prospective bidders for British Energy by maintaining that it would not accept the emergence of a single monopoly player in the country's ...