{"title":"Marxian Perspectives on Monopolies","authors":"Paško Bilić, Toni Prug, Mislav Žitko","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h0b.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h0b.7","url":null,"abstract":"In Chapter 3 the authors critically discuss how monopoly is conceptualised as aberration from perfect competition in mainstream economics, or as a stage in the development of capitalism that leads to the dominance of the giant trans-national corporation from some Marxian perspectives. Monopoly is already present at the start of the capitalist process as monopoly over the means of production. Furthermore, there is an inherent tendency toward monopoly coming out of the core of competitive mechanism. Thus, competition and monopoly do not serve as exclusive points or stages, but as processes within a continuum of accumulation and expansion of capital. The limits and boundaries that shape competition, monopoly and accumulation are framed by technological, institutional, and political factors. Legal form and legal practices have the capacity to constitute abstract produced objects as commodities, which in specific conditions enter the circuit of capital and augment capital accumulation. That is, in fact, generalized across different historical varieties of capitalism and it is essential for the accumulation based on intangible assets.","PeriodicalId":137881,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129402447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h0b.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h0b.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137881,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125956874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h0b.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sr6h0b.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137881,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121120014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}