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will have proved only temporary and the way for its continuation 
will soon he free. With the rise of oligopoly which in~ 
America can he dated approximately-at the end of the ^tret- 
cJ> 
century/ this corrective influence of competition^weakene*:. Ttf 
the systeniy at this stage, is near to 
the theoretical limit to which it tends with the given 
structural coefficients, and if the;growth in profit margins 
dui 
e fo oligopoly leaqs to a decline in utilisation which will 
nc 
t *>e corrected hy a 
growtp will decline, 
fop tfce onconfe of mat 
o|f capital - lla the t 
i 
^egim^ of industry. 
competitive struggle, then the rate of 
The change which is directly responsible 
irity - the decline in the rate of growth 
:»ansition to a predominantly oligopolistic 
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