Definitions
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- v. To invest an excessive amount
Etymologies
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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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Under some circumstances, authors and technologists will overinvest because private value exceeds social value.
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Company executives can then be blamed if they either underinvest or overinvest in spectrum.
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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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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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Our farmers don't necessarily overinvest in tractors and agronomy degrees.
Justin Fox, Fischer Black, Tyler Cowen, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Overpriced stocks cause consumers to overspend and businesses to overinvest -- and none of it can last.
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The same employers who blather about keeping workers safe may encourage them to overinvest in company stock.
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The shares themselves may be low-risk, but it's high-risk to overinvest in them.
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And the market players followed up with a vengeance, reacting to all of the incentives to overinvest in housing that national policy created.
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