Baxter's law

Meanings

proper noun

economicsAn economic law that describes how a monopoly in a regulated industry can extend into and dominate an unregulated one.
Synonyms: Bell doctrine

proper nounAn economic law that describes how a monopoly in a regulated industry can extend into and dominate an unregulated one.

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After William Francis Baxter Jr., a professor of antitrust law at Stanford University.

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