An Anti-Monopoly, Abundance Movement for Urban Politics

An Anti-Monopoly, Abundance Movement for Urban Politics

One-party municipal rule leads to poor services, corruption, and dejected electorates.

An Anti-Monopoly and Abundance Movement for Urban Politics

In the economic world, it’s widely accepted that a lack of competition between firms in a particular sector leads to poor results—higher prices, constrained supply, less innovation, fewer product choices, and shoddier services for customers. At the extreme, concentrated economic power and a lack of competition lead to actual monopolies or monopolistic-like scenarios frequently seen in the telecommunications, technology, banking, and health insur…