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Competition

-- See Also the narrower term Barriers to entry (Industrial organization)

Here are entered works on technological, economic, or legal conditions of a market which raise the costs of firms wanting to enter the market above those of firms already in the market, or which otherwise make new entry difficult.

-- See Also the narrower term Cartels

Here are entered works on combinations in restraint of trade in which independent business enterprises formally agree among themselves to control or limit output, prices, and/or markets so as to achieve monopolistic power. Works on combinations in which stock ownership is transferred to trustees, who in turn issue trust certificates and dividends and who attempt to achieve monopolistic control over output, prices, or markets, are entered under Trusts, Industrial.

-- See Also Conglomerate corporations

-- See Also the narrower term Countervailing power

Here are entered works on the ability of economic groups to balance or neutralize the power of opposing groups.

-- See Also Covenants not to compete

-- See Also the narrower term Government competition

-- See Also Industrial concentration

-- See Also Monopolies

-- See Also the narrower term Monopolistic competition

Here are entered works on the competition among sellers whose products are similar, emphasizing product differentiation and advertising rather than price.

-- See Also the narrower term Monopsonies

-- See Also the narrower term Social Darwinism

-- See Also the narrower term Struggle

-- See Also Supply and demand

--subdivision Supply and demand under occupational groups and types of employees, e.g. Accountants--Supply and demand; Construction industry--Employees--Supply and demand