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Monopoly and Monopsony Power in a Market for Mud
Monopoly and Monopsony Power in a Market for Mud This article describes an unusual market I use in my intermediate microeconomics courses to illustrate characteristics of monopoly and monopsony power. For over sixty years the Lena Blackburne Rubbing Mud (LBRM) company has been the sole supplier of mud taken from a Delaware River tributary that is applied to all baseballs used by Major League Baseball (MLB) teams. The unique quality of the mud removes the shine and slickness of new baseballs. Students must explain why LBRM is or is not a monopoly and recognize the source of MLB’s monopsony power. Edward Scahill† †University of Scranton © 2020 Journal of Economics Teaching. All rights reserved. Scahill / Journal of Economics Teaching (2020) 1. Introduction A monopoly is an enterprise that is the only seller of a good or service… Before and during the period of the classical economics (roughly 1776–1850), most people believed that… [the] only monopolies that could persist… were those that got the government to exclude rivals… Even today, most important enduring monopolies or near monopolies in the United States rest on government policies…Monopolies that exist independent of government support are likely to be due to smallness of markets (the only druggist in town) or to rest on temporary leadership in innovation…(Stigler) Although most students in my intermediate economics courses understand the graphical analysis of monopoly and the impact of monopoly power on economic welfare, it is a challenge to find actual examples of monopoly power that engage their interest.1 Although dominant firms in many markets have some degree of monopoly power, the number of “pure” monopolies – sole providers of a good or service that have no close substitutes - are rare. -
Antitrust and Baseball: Stealing Holmes
Antitrust and Baseball: Stealing Holmes Kevin McDonald 1. introduction this: It happens every spring. The perennial hopefulness of opening day leads to talk of LEVEL ONE: “Justice Holmes baseball, which these days means the business ruled that baseball was a sport, not a of baseball - dollars and contracts. And business.” whether the latest topic is a labor dispute, al- LEVEL TWO: “Justice Holmes held leged “collusion” by owners, or a franchise that personal services, like sports and considering a move to a new city, you eventu- law and medicine, were not ‘trade or ally find yourself explaining to someone - commerce’ within the meaning of the rather sheepishly - that baseball is “exempt” Sherman Act like manufacturing. That from the antitrust laws. view has been overruled by later In response to the incredulous question cases, but the exemption for baseball (“Just how did that happen?”), the customary remains.” explanation is: “Well, the famous Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. decided that baseball was exempt from the antitrust laws in a case called The truly dogged questioner points out Federal Baseball Club ofBaltimore 1.: National that Holmes retired some time ago. How can we League of Professional Baseball Clubs,‘ and have a baseball exemption now, when the an- it’s still the law.” If the questioner persists by nual salary for any pitcher who can win fifteen asking the basis for the Great Dissenter’s edict, games is approaching the Gross National Prod- the most common responses depend on one’s uct of Guam? You might then explain that the level of antitrust expertise, but usually go like issue was not raised again in the courts until JOURNAL 1998, VOL. -
Rivista Dell'arbitrato 1-15
ISSN 1122-0147 ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA PER L’ARBITRATO Pubblicazione trimestrale Anno XXV - N. 1/2015 Poste Italiane s.p.a. - Spedizione in a.p. D.L. 353/2003 (conv. in L. 27/02/2004 n° 46) art. 1, comma 1, DCB (VARESE) RIVISTA DELL’ARBITRATO diretta da Antonio Briguglio - Giorgio De Nova - Andrea Giardina ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA PER L’ARBITRATO Pubblicazione trimestrale Anno XXV - N. 1/2015 Poste Italiane s.p.a. - Spedizione in a.p. D.L. 353/2003 (conv. in L. 27/02/2004 n° 46) art. 1, comma 1, DCB (VARESE) RIVISTA DELL’ARBITRATO diretta da Antonio Briguglio - Giorgio De Nova - Andrea Giardina comitato scientifico GUIDO ALPA - FERRUCCIO AULETTA - PIERO BERNARDINI - PAOLO BIAVATI - MAURO BOVE - FEDERICO CARPI - CLAUDIO CONSOLO - DIEGO CORAPI - FABRIZIO CRISCUOLO - GIORGIO GAJA - FRANCESCO PAOLO LUISO - RICCARDO LUZZATTO - NICOLA PICARDI - CARMINE PUNZI - LUCA RADICATI DI BROZOLO - PIETRO RESCIGNO - GIORGIO SACERDOTI - LAURA SALVANESCHI - FERRUCCIO TOMMASEO - ROMANO VACCARELLA - GIOVANNI VERDE - VINCENZO VIGORITI - ATTILIO ZIMATORE. già diretta da ELIO FAZZALARI. direzione: ANTONIO BRIGUGLIO - GIORGIO DE NOVA - ANDREA GIARDINA. MARIA BEATRICE DELI (direttore responsabile). redazione ANDREA BANDINI - LAURA BERGAMINI - ALDO BERLINGUER - ANDREA CARLEVARIS - CLAUDIO CECCHELLA - MASSIMO COCCIA - ALESSANDRA COLOSIMO - ELENA D’ALESSANDRO - ANNA DE LUCA - FERDINANDO EMANUELE - ALESSANDRO FUSILLO - DANTE GROSSI - MAURO LONGO - ROBERTO MARENGO † - FABRIZIO MARRELLA - ELENA OCCHIPINTI - ANDREW G. PATON - FRANCESCA PIETRANGELI ROBERTO VACCARELLA Segretari di redazione: ANDREA ATTERITANO - MARIANGELA ZUMPANO. La Direzione e la Redazione della Rivista hanno sede presso l’Associazio- ne Italiana per l’Arbitrato, in Roma, Via Barnaba Oriani, 34 (c.a.p. 00197) tel. 06/42014749 - 06/42014665; fax 06/4882677; www.arbitratoaia.org e-mail: [email protected] L’Amministrazione ha sede presso la Casa Editrice, in Milano (c.a.p. -
Oral Presentations 2020 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting Boston, Massachusetts • April 25–29, 2020
AANS 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting Abstracts Oral Presentations 2020 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting Boston, Massachusetts • April 25–29, 2020 (DOI: 10.3171/2020.4.JNS.AANS2020abstracts) Disclaimer: The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) acknowledges that the preceding abstracts are published as submitted and did not go through JNSPG’s peer-review or editing process. 100: Gum Chewing to Expedite Return of Bowel Function after Anterior Lumbar Surgery Alexandra Richards, DNP (Phoenix, AZ); JoDee Winter, PA-C; Naresh Patel, MD; Matthew Neal, MD; Chandan Krishna, MD; Pelagia Kouloumberis; Maziyar Kalani, MD Introduction: Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) is used to treat lumbar spondylosis and spondylolisthesis. The operation involves an anterior, retroperitoneal approach to the spine. Patients frequently experience a slow return of bowel function secondary to anesthetic time, opioid use, and primarily due to the bowel displacement intraoperatively; however, this operation is amenable to outpatient surgery. Gum chewing decreases the time for return to bowel function (RBF) in postoperative colorectal and gynecology patients. Despite this data, the association between gum chewing and RBF has only been studied in posterior spine patients. Methods: Preoperative patients needing one or two level ALIF were recruited at a single institution. Patients were selected based on inclusion criteria and randomized by a random number generator; a blinded research assistant assisted with randomization. The experimental group (gum-chewing) and control group (hospital standard management) were compared with the endpoints of length of stay, length to return of bowel function via the passing of flatus and passing of stool. Medical care was standardized with regard to pain control, diet, ambulation, and deep venous thrombus prophylactic and perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis. -
The Role of Media in the Development of Professional Baseball in New York from 1919-1929
University of Mississippi eGrove Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 2011 Crashsmith Dope: the Role of Media in the Development of Professional Baseball in New York From 1919-1929 Ryan McGregor Whittington Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd Part of the Journalism Studies Commons Recommended Citation Whittington, Ryan McGregor, "Crashsmith Dope: the Role of Media in the Development of Professional Baseball in New York From 1919-1929" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 308. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/308 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CRASHSMITH DOPE: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL IN NEW YORK FROM 1919-1929 BY RYAN M. WHITTINGTON B.A., University of Mississippi, Oxford, 2009 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The University of Mississippi In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts In the Meek School of Journalism © Copyright by Ryan M. Whittington 2011 All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT John McGraw’s New York Giants were the premier team of the Deadball Era, which stretched from 1900-1919. Led by McGraw and his ace pitcher, Christy Mathewson, the Giants epitomized the Deadball Era with their strong pitching and hard-nosed style of play. In 1919 however, The New York Times and The Sporting News chronicled a surge in the number of home runs that would continue through the 1920s until the entire sport embraced a new era of baseball. -
R. Plapinger Baseball Books
R. PLAPINGER BASEBALL BOOKS (#294) BASEBALL NON-FICTION CATALOG #42 SPRING/SUMMER 2006 P.O. Box 1062, Ashland, OR 97520 (541) 488-1220 • [email protected] $4.00 1 Thank You For Requesting This Catalog. Please Read These Notes Before You Begin. Books are listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name. All books are hardback unless indicated PB which means a “pocket size” paperback or TP which means a larger format paperback. “Orig.” means a book was never published in hardback, or was first published as a paperback. “Sim w. hb” means that the hard and paper covered editions were published simultaneously. All books are First Editions to the best of my knowledge, unless indicated reprint (rpt) or later printing (ltr ptg). Books and dust jacket grading: Mint (mt) (generally used only for new books); Fine (fn); Very Good (vg); Good (g) (this is the average condition for a used book); Fair (fr); Poor (p). Grade of dust jacket (dj) precedes the grade of the book (dj/bk). If a book has no dj: (ndj). PC indicates a photo or picture cover on the book itself (not the jacket). When I know a dj was never issued, I indicate: “as iss.” In addition to the grades above “+” and “-” are used to indicate minor variations in condition. Specific defects to a book or dj are noted, as are ex-library (x-lib) and book club (BC) editions. X-lib books generally exhibit some, or all of the following traits: front or rear flyleaf removed, glue and/or tape stains on covers and/or flyleaves, stamps on edges or flyleaves, library pocket. -
Notes from the Diamond #5 2018 1215 Wannabes Beware
Notes from the Diamond #5 Wannabes Beware December 15, 2018 David A. Salem Twitter: @dsaleminvestor Email: [email protected] 2 0 1 8 H O L I D A Y E D I T I O N ReaDing Time: 15 minutes * * More if you Dive into the cLosing exhibit. Caffeine recommenDeD for it. If the LorD were a Pitcher, he wouLD Pitch Plagiarism is the carDinaL virtue of like PeDro [Martinez]. investing. — Pro baseballer David Segui — Pro investor Jeremy Grantham (?) Trivia Question #5 of 108: Which of the following A - A player’s mother hit and injured by a fouled-off phenomena has occurred just once since the pitch thrown by her son on Mother’s Day. inception of Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1876? B - A spectator hit and injured by two foul balls hit by When choosing among the options listed below, the same batter in a single plate appearance. note that in 143 years of MLB competition, 217,082 C - A player killed by a pitch. games have been played, with well over 30 million pitches thrown during almost 15 million at-bats. D - All of the above. Among the many things investing and pro baseball persons on whom the trivia question above focuses. have in common, perhaps foremost among them is a Sadly, the correct answer to that question is D — All rich tradition of purposeful mimicry: a conscious of the Above — Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller’s copycatting of methods that have worked well for mother having been smacked by a fouled-off pitch the persons who devised them originally and that thrown by her son on Mother’s Day 1939; Richie can presumably be put to good use by others, Ashburn of the Phialdelphia Phillies having hit competitors not excepted. -
Code 311021 Subject Bob Dibiasio, Public Relations for the Cleveland Indians Date 12/2/2005 Interviewer Lisa Kelly Special Notes
Code 311021 Subject Bob DiBiasio, Public Relations for the Cleveland Indians Date 12/2/2005 Interviewer lisa kelly cleveland indians, marketing, 1990s urban renewal, nice quotes Special Notes about baseball minutes: 1 introduction and background, "hometown pride" 2 early love of baseball 3 "Cleveland Press had a [free tickets for] straight A's program" 4 favorite player: Rocky Calovito 5 mother was a member of the Base Belles ladies fan club 6 "the beauty of the game" 7 8 [7:45 forward] visiting other baseball parks 9 10 11 12 [11:40 forward] duties as public relations director 13 marketing the "core players" 14 15 [14:45 forward] promotional events 16 Larry Dobey, the first african-american player in the american league 17 getting started in the sports marketing business 18 19 20 promoting the team 21 recent changes in how teams are marketed 22 Jacobs Field, "the most significant move of our franchise… ever." 23 24 25 League Park history and restoration project 26 27 interpreting historic photos of the fans 28 baseball is universal and family-friendly 29 Society for American Baseball Research (SABRE) 30 Five Reasons why Jacobs Field sold every ticket for 458 games in a row 31 32 downtown cleveland was "booming" in the mid 1990s 33 34 35 36 ownership of Cleveland Indians organization (Dick Jacobs versus Larry Dolan) 37 38 39 naming stadiums 40 Jacobs Field was "built to last" 41 Designing Jacobs Field 42 43 keys to success Minor Leagues: "the farm system is the life blood of middle-market baseball… but that's 44 not a sexy thing." 45 46 -
Wiffle Ball Unit Baseball/Softball Notes
Wiffle Ball Unit Baseball/softball Notes IN THE BEGINNING THE LEGEND AND THE TRUTH Many children in the United States grow up believing that Abner Doubleday. According to legend, in 1839 Doubleday invented a game called town ball. A man who claimed to be a Doubledays’ childhood friend told a group investigating the origins of baseball that he was there in 1839 when Doubleday created the national pastime. When a tattered baseball was found among Doubleday’s belongings after his death, the legend was accepted as fact. The 1907 commission believed the Doubleday story. That tattered ball is now enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, which was built in Cooperstown, New York, near the field where Doubleday supposedly gave birth to the game. (See the book Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer at Amazon.com) It makes a great story, but further investigation shows it probably isn’t true. Doubleday’s friend may have been in Cooperstown in 1839, but Doubleday himself was 170 miles away at West Point where he was a cadet at the United States Military Academy. Doubleday kept detailed journals of his life but never once mentioned baseball. Hmmm… Base ball (it was often written as two words) was mentioned in published material well before 1939. In a children’s alphabet book published in England in 1744, the letter B is represented by base ball. The first reference to baseball in a book printed in the United States occurred in 1834, five years before the game was even officially invented by Doubleday. IN THE BEGINNING THE LEGEND AND THE TRUTH Many children in the United States grow up believing that Abner Doubleday. -
Proquest Dissertations
THE EVOLUTION OF A BALLPARK SOCIETY: BASEBALL SPECTATORSHIP IN NEW YORK CITY, 1876-1890 A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Graduate Studies of The University of Guelph by BEN ROBINSON In partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Arts April, 2009 © Ben Robinson, 2009 Library and Archives Bibliotheque et 1*1 Canada Archives Canada Published Heritage Direction du Branch Patrimoine de I'edition 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington OttawaONK1A0N4 OttawaONK1A0N4 Canada Canada Your Me Votre ref6rence ISBN: 978-0-494-58408-8 Our file Notre reference ISBN: 978-0-494-58408-8 NOTICE: AVIS: The author has granted a non L'auteur a accorde une licence non exclusive exclusive license allowing Library and permettant a la Bibliotheque et Archives Archives Canada to reproduce, Canada de reproduire, publier, archiver, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, sauvegarder, conserver, transmettre au public communicate to the public by par telecommunication ou par I'lnternet, preter, telecommunication or on the Internet, distribuer et vendre des theses partout dans le loan, distribute and sell theses monde, a des fins commerciales ou autres, sur worldwide, for commercial or non support microforme, papier, electronique et/ou commercial purposes, in microform, autres formats. paper, electronic and/or any other formats. The author retains copyright L'auteur conserve la propriete du droit d'auteur ownership and moral rights in this et des droits moraux qui protege cette these. Ni thesis. Neither the thesis nor la these ni des extraits substantiels de celle-ci substantial extracts from it may be ne doivent etre imprimes ou autrement printed or otherwise reproduced reproduits sans son autorisation. -
Early Baseball Career of Carl Mays in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Utah Mark E
Fort Hays State University FHSU Scholars Repository Monographs 2-18-2019 Early Baseball Career of Carl Mays in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Utah Mark E. Eberle Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/all_monographs Part of the History Commons Early Baseball Career of Carl Mays in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Utah Mark E. Eberle Early Baseball Career of Carl Mays in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Utah © 2019 by Mark E. Eberle Recommended citation: Eberle, Mark E. 2019. Early Baseball Career of Carl Mays in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Utah. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 16 pages. Early Baseball Career of Carl Mays in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Utah Mark E. Eberle Introduction The earliest baseball experiences of major league players and other prominent individuals are often treated superficially in biographies and other historical accounts. In addition, these historical summaries frequently suffer from poor documentation, especially for events that occurred during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In some instances, these deficiencies could be considered of little consequence to the featured story of the person’s later accomplishments. In others, the shortcomings have led to questionable conclusions, such as the presumption that Dwight Eisenhower must have lied about being paid to play summer baseball prior to his entry into the US Military Academy at West Point so he could participate in collegiate athletics.1 As newspapers and documents become increasingly available in digital formats, it becomes correspondingly easier to write well-documented summaries of the early history of baseball, including insights into the experiences of players before they joined major or minor league teams. -
Take Me out to the Ballgame: a History of Baseball in America Professor Timothy B
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME : A H ISTORY OF BASEBALL IN AMERICA COURSE GUIDE Professor Timothy B. Shutt KENYON COLLEGE Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A History of Baseball in America Professor Timothy B. Shutt Kenyon College Recorded Books ™ is a trademark of Recorded Books, LLC. All rights reserved. Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A History of Baseball in America Professor Timothy B. Shutt Executive Producer John J. Alexander Executive Editor Donna F. Carnahan RECORDING Producer - David Markowitz Director - Matthew Cavnar COURSE GUIDE Editor - James Gallagher Contributing Editor - Karen Sparrough Design - Edward White Lecture content ©2007 by Timothy B. Shutt Course guide ©2007 by Recorded Books, LLC Cover image: © Photos.com 72007 by Recorded Books, LLC #UT110 ISBN: 978-1-4281-7584-6 All beliefs and opinions expressed in this audio/video program and accompanying course guide are those of the author and not of Recorded Books, LLC, or its employees. Course Syllabus Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A History of Baseball in America About Your Professor...................................................................................................4 Introduction...................................................................................................................5 Lecture 1 Origin and Fundamental Character of the Game ..................................6 Lecture 2 Nineteenth-Century Professional Baseball..........................................11 Lecture 3 The Early 1900s ..................................................................................17