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Sheldon Whitehouse: “Extracting monopoly rents isn't viewed by any economist as being legitimate economic behavior, is it?”

On the recordOctober 16, 2017
Extracting monopoly rents isn't viewed by any economist as being legitimate economic behavior, is it?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse emphasizes that monopoly rent extraction is not legitimate economic behavior.

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