Monopoly Power can be Disadvantageous in the Extraction of a Durable Nonrenewable Resource

Insurgent Universality presents an intervention in current discussions on universalism, democracy, and property. It investigates other trajectories besides traditional ones of modernity and traces an alternative legacy for contemporary movements. This legacy exceeds the familiar juridical horizon of citizenship, individual rights, and the state by revisiting questions relating to power, democratic practices, and the modern conception of private property. Insurgent Universality investigates and displays alternative trajectories of modernity that have been repressed, hindered, and forgotten. These trajectories are not only embodiments of a radical hope and a new conception of universality that arose from insurgencies from below; they also alert us to possibilities in our present that have been underestimated or overlooked. Eventually, they show us alternative institutions by which to reshape our present. These experimental democratic practices and institutions are based on the pluralism of authorities instead of the monopoly power of the state. However, such an inquiry resists the utopian urge to clear the tables. Instead, the book examines more closely, and with a fresh perspective, those aspects of our intellectual inheritance that we have allowed to remain in the darkness. By doing this, Insurgent Universality aims to “decolonize” European history, offering an image of Europe that is not monolithic but, rather, composed of many layers and paths that have been repressed or forgotten. The aim of the book is to rebuild those roads not taken and bridge them with non-European trajectories and political experiments.

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Regulation

10.1093/oso/9780198825142.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Sugden

Keyword(s):

Public Goods ◽

Maximum Yield ◽

Monopoly Power ◽

Choice Overload ◽

Market Failures ◽

Governmental Regulation

Chapter 7 considers a range of conditions that are usually considered as ‘market failures’ to be corrected by governmental regulation. I discuss these conditions, and possible responses to them, from a contractarian viewpoint. I argue that neoclassical arguments for regulations against cartels and against the exploitation of monopoly power can be endorsed on contractarian grounds, as can certain kinds of regulations against spurious complexity in pricing. I raise doubts about the significance of behavioural arguments for regulation that assume choice overload or preferences for self-constraint. I develop a concept of consumers’ surplus that does not depend on assumptions about preferences, and is defined in terms of the maximum yield of discriminatory pricing. I discuss two opportunity-enhancing mechanisms for the supply of public goods.

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Controlling monopoly power in a double‐auction market experiment

Journal of Public Economic Theory ◽

10.1111/jpet.12504 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Giuseppe Attanasi ◽

Kene Boun My ◽

Andrea Guido ◽

Mathieu Lefebvre

Keyword(s):

Monopoly Power ◽

Double Auction ◽

Auction Market ◽

Market Experiment

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A review on allotropes of carbon and natural filler-reinforced thermomechanical properties of upgraded epoxy hybrid composite

REVIEWS ON ADVANCED MATERIALS SCIENCE ◽

10.1515/rams-2021-0024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 237-275

Author(s):

Krushna Gouda ◽

Sumit Bhowmik ◽

Biplab Das

Keyword(s):

Hybrid Composite ◽

Low Cost ◽

Extraction Process ◽

Thermomechanical Properties ◽

Neat Epoxy ◽

Inorganic Filler ◽

Nonrenewable Resource ◽

High Performing ◽

Thermosetting Polymers ◽

Natural Filler

Abstract The scarcity of nonrenewable resource motivated inclination towards the environmental-friendly novel materials and development of waste natural filler-based hybrid composite is encouraged to fulfill the material demand. Epoxy resins-based composites are high-performing thermosetting polymers and have outstanding blending properties, good machinability, and low cost. Due to these advantages, thermoset plastic is largely used in a broad range of engineering applications; however, thermomechanical properties of neat epoxy are low. Thus, to enhance the thermomechanical properties of epoxy, it is interfaced materials such as graphite, graphene nanoplatelet, boron, carbon fiber, aluminium, silver, etc. Among various substances, graphene has been deliberated as an acceptable novel filler because of its exceptional properties. In addition to inorganic filler inclusion, natural filler/fiber like hemp, sisal, flax, bamboo, jute, etc. can be utilized in a higher percentage as biodegradable material. The present article assisted to improve thermomechanical properties of neat epoxy. This work identifies and addresses (i) processes used for graphene modification; (ii) treatment utilized for enhancing the binding properties of natural filler; (iii) various natural filler extraction process employed; (iv) neat epoxy modification; and (v) influence of different dimensions of fillers.

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