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The success and stumbles of IndiGo and Vodafone offer lessons on regulation and its enforcement

The success and stumbles of IndiGo and Vodafone offer lessons on regulation and its enforcement

The success and stumbles of IndiGo and Vodafone offer lessons on regulation and its enforcement


If all this sounds familiar, it is because we have seen versions of it before: liberalization opens the door, private enterprise rushes in, competition flourishes and then market concentration, ironically often as a result of rivalry, creates new fragilities. Markets, as I wrote earlier for Mint, need boundaries; they rarely set limits on their own. In that sense, market self-regulation is a myth propounded by oligarchies in their self-interest.

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