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Competition law's power to block mergers or allow them on condition of selling parts; the clash of corporate personalities after a merger; mergers reducing competition; diseconomies of scale in a firm too large to manage — Principles of Economics 2e, OpenStax, licensed CC BY 4.0. https://openstax.org/books/principles-economics-2e/pages/11-1-corporate-mergers and https://openstax.org/books/principles-economics-2e/pages/7-5-costs-in-the-long-run. Changes: US antitrust law recast as UK competition law and the Competition and Markets Authority; the FTC, its figures and every US case left out; the clash of corporate personalities and reduced competition kept from 11.1 in the horizontal explain, with the organic growth, overpaying and economies-of-scale lines ours; the 7.5 sentence on layers of management kept close to verbatim in the mistake note, with the conglomerate line and the final instruction ours; British spelling.
The ways a firm pays for expansion, and why a young firm with few profits and no record finds it hard to borrow — Principles of Economics 2e, OpenStax, licensed CC BY 4.0. https://openstax.org/books/principles-economics-2e/pages/17-1-how-businesses-raise-financial-capital. Changes: The four sources of financial capital condensed to reinvested profits, borrowing and selling shares, and turned into a constraint on growth; the café example and its figures ours; British spelling.
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