Market Power

Musings by an academic economist on the power of markets and the power over markets.

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Wal-Mart and Computers

Wal-Mart now offers a laptop computer for less than $500. How did Wal-Mart cut the costs of this computer? The computer uses a Linux-based operating system instead of Windows. See this St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.

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