"Monopolistic competition" only exists between states at war, since any "monopoly", by definition, has no competition in the same polis.
Willing to confuse cause with effect for a moment, is it true that innovation has mainly been the child of centralized monopolies competing under their respective wartime governments? ...mayyybe... but much of what they did militarily was built on the back of peacetime (or at least freelance) amateur discoveries by their respective member bodies.
That's actually why, supposedly, America "won" the cold war. We promoted the birth of Mom's Garage Engineering.
[edit: Strike. "Engineering your home PC in your mom's garage" is what I meant to say. And clearly, that more than any military/industrial/monopolistic program has made America the dominant power in the global technocracy today.]
Willing to confuse cause with effect for a moment, is it true that innovation has mainly been the child of centralized monopolies competing under their respective wartime governments? ...mayyybe... but much of what they did militarily was built on the back of peacetime (or at least freelance) amateur discoveries by their respective member bodies.
That's actually why, supposedly, America "won" the cold war. We promoted the birth of Mom's Garage Engineering.
[edit: Strike. "Engineering your home PC in your mom's garage" is what I meant to say. And clearly, that more than any military/industrial/monopolistic program has made America the dominant power in the global technocracy today.]