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Nazim U. Hajiyev: Assessment stages of cyclical development of monopoly and
competition in terms of the reconstruction of Azerbaijan economy

It should be noted that, formed manufactures acted like monopolists which

states gave them benefits and also protected them with the protectionism external

trade by state. By the laws of French which restricted production, import or sale of

pattern roman piece the range of punishment could change from heavy forced labor

and put in prison to death penalty. According to some observations, 16 thousand

smugglers and illegal producers of pattern roman piece were killed by the French

government only during a ten-year anniversary of the XVIII century. In

addition, more people have been exiled to colony or otherwise punished [De Soto

E. 20015, p. 101]. However despite privileges and regulation, the manufactures

gradually connected lines and signs of capitalist entrepreneurship itself. Various

manufactures began to work for global market (for example, cloth industries of

England and silk industries of France).

The weakening position of workshop production increased in XVIII century.

This process intensively developed especially in England in which parliament was

against monopolies. Starting from the end of the XVII century English king was

deprived of the opportunity of distribution of monopoly rights and at the beginning

of the XVIII century the monopolies were cancelled in all new industrial areas.

But, in old industrial areas (for example, wool industry), also in primitive industry

monopoly rights and privileges were held up to the end of the XVIII century,

though were weakened. Restrictions on industry and handicraft sector in England

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