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It's usually not the lowest time-weighted opportunity-cost option, unless the borrower isn't the one repaying.
Government vs. Private Debt, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Nevertheless, in particular the producers of electricity succeeded in marking up the market price of electricity to include the opportunity-cost value of the allowances.
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And there was no recognized venue for opportunity-cost discussions about the emerging Iraq policy, even if anyone had wanted them.
Bush's Lost Year 2004
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And there was no recognized venue for opportunity-cost discussions about the emerging Iraq policy, even if anyone had wanted them.
Bush's Lost Year 2004
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And there was no recognized venue for opportunity-cost discussions about the emerging Iraq policy, even if anyone had wanted them.
Bush's Lost Year 2004
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In such circumstances solutions may be available to the small cultivator, with his low opportunity-cost labor, which would not be economically viable on a mechanized scale.
Chapter 9 1995
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It was shown, in the case of Coca-Cola, that operating divisions should charge themselves 16 percent opportunity-cost “interest” on their own capital, to reflect true costs and make correct decisions about the use of that capital.
Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994
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But opportunity-cost reasoning requires managers to ask, what could have been earned with this money in alternate uses, if it were not put into this or that project.
Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994
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What he meant by economic profit was sales revenues minus operating costs, including an opportunity-cost charge for capital.
Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994
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What he meant by economic profit was sales revenues minus operating costs, including an opportunity-cost charge for capital.
Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994
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