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- verb To
invest an excessive amount
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Examples
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But the focus on people leads us to overinvest in the rewards for individual innovation and underinvest in the intellectual commons that make those innovations possible.
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If you overestimate or overinvest in one part of the system, like building coastal defenses, and then you do not invest in the other parts of the system, like backup systems or redundant systems, then, you get what we just saw.
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Company executives can then be blamed if they either underinvest or overinvest in spectrum.
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But the focus on people leads us to overinvest in the rewards for individual innovation and underinvest in the intellectual commons that make those innovations possible.
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Under some circumstances, authors and technologists will overinvest because private value exceeds social value.
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Under some circumstances, authors and technologists will overinvest because private value exceeds social value.
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They give incentives for excessive risk taking, which means that banks may overinvest in risky loans something we witnessed quite clearly in the housing market leading up to the crisis.
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They give incentives for excessive risk taking, which means that banks may overinvest in risky loans something we witnessed quite clearly in the housing market leading up to the crisis.
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They give incentives for excessive risk taking, which means that banks may overinvest in risky loans something we witnessed quite clearly in the housing market leading up to the crisis.
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They give incentives for excessive risk taking, which means that banks may overinvest in risky loans something we witnessed quite clearly in the housing market leading up to the crisis.
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