The final problem is that, in an effort to reduce the economic concentration of power, the administration is concentrating political power in Washington.
Public concerns about economic concentration are stoked by hard times.
The downside to this economic concentration is there could be less competition and cost control.
They stand as the moral poles of an individual, for whom tinkering American idealism is gradually flattened by the impersonal weight of technology and economic concentration.
Then the Shah decided that there was too much administrative and economic concentration in Teheran, and that he needed to decentralize.
The state Casino Control Commission ruled last week that adding the Claridge casino hotel to its Atlantic City empire will not give Park Place Entertainment, owner of the Caesar's, Park Place and Hilton casinos, an "undue economic concentration".
The consequences of economic concentration for consumers are complicated by more difficult-to-trace impacts on small businesses, American workers and small businesses.
But those who oppose the dam say Mr. Piñera is showing signs of the kind of corporate-government economic concentration that has defined past Chilean governments.
The immensity of the soybean and corn fields has only grown because so many smaller farms have vanished as a result of government farm policy, which rewards economic concentration.
One former Salt Lake City planning official, Stephen A. Goldsmith, who is not a Mormon, said he was thrilled by the thought of people moving back downtown, but feared that the church's economic concentration would lead to a "Vaticanization" of the area.
