[graycat]

> Economists, normally, analyse a market from the point of view of the "public interest". With this perspective in mind, self-perpetuating monopolies are almost always a bad thing (unless you believe in such things as centralized planning and dictatorships).

Okay, but the more famous economists are usually at the more famous universities which tend to have large endowments and tend to want to get high returns and often do this by investing in VCs who look for monopolies that can return money enough to pay for the professors of economics!

Actually, whatever gets taught or suggested in the classrooms, it's both common and easy enough for the high end universities to look for and like students who are wealthy or relatively likely to become wealthy and make significant donations back to the university -- no joke. Or, universities are not against monopolies everywhere on campus!