How to Use monopsony in a Sentence

monopsony

noun
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  • In a monopsony market, there is only one buyer, and so there is no upward pressure on wages.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Because not all workers are willing to work at these depressed wages, monopsony leads some workers to quit.
    — Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner, Vox, 6 Apr. 2018
  • This school of thought argues that some labour markets are characterised by a market structure known as monopsony.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The defendant publishers take issue with the rarefied nature of the government bringing a monopsony case.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2022
  • Among economists, there’s a debate about whether the company is creating a kind of monopsony, where there’s only one buyer—or in this case one employer.
    — al, 18 Dec. 2020
  • There is only one military customer that matters, the government, and thus the defense market has the characteristics of a monopsony.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • If a monopoly is a market with one dominant seller, a monopsony is its inverse, a market where one buyer is pre-eminent.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2022
  • First, antitrust worries, which take in big tech firms’ high market shares, buying-up of promising competitors, and potential monopsony power over suppliers and vendors.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Just as a monopoly is the only company selling a particular good or service in a given market, a monopsony is the only company buying one.
    — Matt Darling, Quartz at Work, 28 Aug. 2019
  • That suit was filed before Kanter was confirmed, though the attorney did raise monopsony concerns in his confirmation testimony.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2022
  • One such factor might be what economists call monopsony, or concentrated market power.
    — Noah Smith, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • An enterprise with a single buyer, called a monopsony, typically means lower prices for producers.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Finally, good antitrust enforcement can help fight monopsony.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Liberal economists and Democrats say that raising the minimum wage is unlikely to have a significant negative effect on jobs because of the monopsony power that employers have.
    — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Back then, his work centered mainly on the monopsony power Wal-Mart exerted over its suppliers, and the broader problem of corporate behemoths creating single points of failure in global supply chains.
    — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Newsletter Sign-up Long-stagnant wages have focused academic attention on monopsony power.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Besides the monopsony research, the Obama White House has focused on evidence that inequality is fueled by a shift away from labor unions and by corporate consolidation within industries.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2016
  • Taking into account market share and monopsony concerns, studios and distributors outside of the five majors make attractive acquisition targets.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The publishing industry is both hyper-consolidated and hyper-dominated by Amazon, a clear monopsony power.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Pooh-poohs increasingly popular explanations like monopsony and worker leverage.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Recent economic studies show that many local labor markets are surprisingly concentrated, giving employers some monopsony power.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 11 June 2018

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