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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
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Subject: Re: Monopoly Power: are you reading, Danny Mck?
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 13:42:58 EDT
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> From "Monopoly Power and Economic Performance" by Edwin Mansfield:
>         Percent of Total Sales made by Four Largest U.S. firms in
>                    each Industry, 1962
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 80.8 Motor Vehicles                27.3 Primary nonferrous metals
> 47.3 Aircraft                      14.7 Other fabricated metal products
> 30.3 Other transport equipment     18.1 Stone, clay and glass products
> 34.4 Electrical machinery           5.2 Furniture and fixtures
> 14.5 Metalworking machinery        21.2 Lumber and wood products
> 20.6 Other machinery               37.9 Instruments
> 40.2 Primary iron and steel        16.3 Miscellaneous manufacturing
> 42.9 Dairy products                31.0 Drugs and medicines
> 33.6 Bakery products               28.5 Other chemicals
> 12.5 Other food                    50.2 Petroleum refining
> 22.0 Textile mill products         48.1 Rubber products
>  4.9 Apparel                       26.7 Leather
> 20.7 Paper                         41.4 Alcoholic beverages
> 42.0 Basic industrial chemicals    70.9 Tobacco

I give up; what are these figures supposed to prove?

Gary Samuelson