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To: yard_man who wrote (102457)	5/15/2001 7:14:16 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

"In the market there are always only single individuals." econlib.org >>The mere presence of a single seller does not imply the presence of exploitation, much less the need for regulatory action, or else consumers would never benefit when a business first provides a product or service. Being the first jewelry store in rural Montana, for example, gives the jeweler a temporary monopoly, but to the extent he makes a go of it, consumers clearly benefit by having more choice of where to buy jewelry than they had before. Moreover, it hardly matters that the single seller’s status occurs at the end rather than the beginning of a time period–say there is only one remaining jewelry store in rural Montana. In either case, the degree of market concentration does not demonstrate the existence of exploitation. In a market economy, it demonstrates that, for whatever reason, economic conditions have temporarily dictated that only one seller is necessary to achieve market efficiency.<< acton.org