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Chapter 21: Oligopolies and Imperfectly Competitive Markets — Economics 101

Most industries you actually interact with are oligopolies — a handful of large firms whose decisions are interdependent. Why that matters, how regulators measure it, and what it costs consumers.
Chapter 22: Collusion and Cartels — Economics 101

Why oligopolists are tempted to coordinate prices, why coordination is illegal in the US, and why cartels — even OPEC — always teeter between cooperation and cheating.
Chapter 25: Monopoly — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Economics 101

Not all monopolies are evil. Natural monopolies, patent monopolies, and government monopolies exist for defensible reasons. Unregulated monopolies are the problem — De Beers is the textbook ugly.