monopsonies

Your assertion that employers are acting as monopsonies is unfortunately largely theoretical.

Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009

Other parallels, both incumbent — the movement of musicians from market to market as compared to the current patchwork of local health-care monopsonies resulting from state-by-state regulation — and potential — the pitfalls of a board-led philanthropic model vis-à-vis prospective models for maintaining government-subsidy accountability — could also be interesting.

Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

Monopsonies — markets dominated by a single buyer — never seem to get the PR that their single-suppler monopolist cousins do, but both of them have similar potential to screw the workers, in revolutionary-slogan terms: if monopolies can price goods out of proportion to the wage market, monopsonies can squeeze wages out of proportion to the marketplace.

Rockin' pneumonia Matthew Guerrieri 2009

Other parallels, both incumbent — the movement of musicians from market to market as compared to the current patchwork of local health-care monopsonies resulting from state-by-state regulation — and potential — the pitfalls of a board-led philanthropic model vis-à-vis prospective models for maintaining government-subsidy accountability — could also be interesting.

Rockin' pneumonia Matthew Guerrieri 2009

Monopsonies — markets dominated by a single buyer — never seem to get the PR that their single-suppler monopolist cousins do, but both of them have similar potential to screw the workers, in revolutionary-slogan terms: if monopolies can price goods out of proportion to the wage market, monopsonies can squeeze wages out of proportion to the marketplace.

Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

"Pure" monopsonies are pretty rare — in economics, the term is usually used in talking about inefficiencies in the labor market.

Bread and Roses Matthew Guerrieri 2008

"Pure" monopsonies are pretty rare — in economics, the term is usually used in talking about inefficiencies in the labor market.

Archive 2008-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Progressives advocate government-run, single-payer monopsonies, whereas conservatives advocate consumer choice among private insurers.

Forbes.com: News Avik Roy 2011

After nearly two centuries of phenomenal industrial growth and evolution, I think there are more than enough examples to arrive at a pretty basic conclusion: concentration of market share and power in oligopolies, monopolies and monopsonies are pretty much an inevitable result, typically occurring when there is some maturation of a market.

Techdirt 2009

Why do you think an economics course spends so much studying monopolies and monopsonies?

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009