英语翻译
Indeed,this conclusion was all but inevitable if no search was made for other restraints,and so complete was the preoccupation with competition that none was made.
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They also came to look to competition exclusively and in formal theory still do.The notion that there might be another regulatory mechanism in the economy had been almost completely excluded from economic thought.Thus,with the widespread disappearance of competition in its classical form and its replacement by the small group of firms if not in overt,at least in conventional or tacit,collusion,it was easy to suppose that since competition had disappeared,all effective restraint on private power had disappeared.