The profit-maximizing price. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
So why limit it to narrowly profit-maximizing goals?. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Capitalism] Reference
And, profit-maximizing health insurance does more harm than that. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Haas: SCHIP and the Rigged Health Insurance Game] Reference
Can they, in other words, rise above their profit-maximizing algorithm?. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 4] Reference
Nor was Nanoannie sure she could control the AI, with its profit-maximizing zeal. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
In sum, physicians were constrained to avoid aggressive profit-maximizing behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Markets and Majorities] Reference
So the profit-maximizing price in the US does notjust drop by the amount of the tax. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Econ Follow-up, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
On one side, representing owners of capital, are powerful profit-maximizing corporations. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
Its just supplying a product at the profit-maximizing price to a person who is an altruist. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Capitalism] Reference
Even a profit-maximizing monopolist-by-law has to worry about the reputation of its products. From Wordnik.com. [How Arnold Underestimates Reputation, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
They're huge, billion-dollar, profit-maximizing companies whose lobbyists dominate Washington, DC. From Wordnik.com. [Marvin Ammori: Cable Industry Confused: It's Not Their First Amendment, But Ours] Reference
The theater owner, on his side, may not care so much about getting the profit-maximizing price right. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Ladies night is just a kind of pricing technique to achieve the profit-maximizing male-female balance. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ladies Night Case and the Rules for Class Action Lawsuits:] Reference
All based on the assumption, of course, that the other side is atomistic, profit-maximizing, and rational. From Wordnik.com. [Insurance versus Charity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
From a strictly profit-maximizing perspective, there is some optimal number of routes Lufthansa should supply. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Capitalism] Reference
A university now envisions itself as a profit-maximizing firm instead of a "public option" of college education. From Wordnik.com. ['DIY U' and the future of public education] Reference
Consumers who favor products by local producers may end up being exploited by profit-maximizing local producers. From Wordnik.com. [P2P: just an excuse for ACTA] Reference
She omits the corporations 'duty to their shareholders to pursue lawful profit-maximizing activities and strategies. From Wordnik.com. [The Elected and the Electors in Corporate Board Governance] Reference
How on earth can a rational profit-maximizing company justify paying more for something than it would cost to make it?. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Baily: Dispatch From Startup Land: Zuckerberg and Contest Economics] Reference
Let us call the first type of business a profit-maximizing business, and the second type of business as social business. From Wordnik.com. [Muhammad Yunus - Nobel Lecture] Reference
A profit-maximizing monopolist sets the price so that the elasticity of demand with respect to per-unit-profit is equal to one. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Econ Follow-up, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
If corporations could increase profits by raising prices, a profit-maximizing corporation would do so regardless of the tax rate. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » What Constitutes a “Fair Share”?] Reference
Simon rejects the assumptions made in the classical theory of the firm of an omniscient, rational, profit-maximizing entrepreneur. From Wordnik.com. [The Prize in Economics 1978 - Presentation Speech] Reference
If your condition is truly catastrophic, won't profit-maximizing health insurers struggle to "contain their costs" at your expense?. From Wordnik.com. [Health Insurance and Reputation, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Thus, like a competitive firm and unlike a profit-maximizing monopoly, a social planner would charge a price equal to marginal cost. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Marginal Cost Pricing for Mass Transit] Reference
If nobody wants to take classes from even a very talented woman professor, then the profit-maximizing position would be to not hire women. From Wordnik.com. [The Summers Speech, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Therefore, clubs think that in order to get the profit-maximizing balance of men and women the have to price differently for men and women. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ladies Night Case and the Rules for Class Action Lawsuits:] Reference
That leads to an unfortunate and expensive situation in which an entrepreneurial, profit-maximizing firm gets to gamble with taxpayer dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Privatizing GSEs Isn] Reference
The model examines the customer's decision of whether to shoplift or not as well as the store's profit-maximizing price and monitoring intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Law] Reference
Naturally, profit-maximizing insurers will therefore devote substantial resources to trying to avoid ways to provide health care to people who need it. From Wordnik.com. [Competing Views of Government: Universal Medicare or Government-Protected Insurance Companies] Reference
The main message from this analysis is that companies that forego some profits to pursue other goals have trouble competing against profit-maximizing firms. From Wordnik.com. [Gary Becker: Is Corporate Altruism Viable in a Competitive Economy?] Reference
If, given all other information, women are less profitable to employ at a given wage than men, then profit-maximizing employers can't afford be gender-blind. From Wordnik.com. [EconLog: Labor Market Archives] Reference
But if history shows anything, it's that eventually a profit-maximizing instrument or nascent investment area will emerge that wrecks the system all over again. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart Whatley: Financial Reform Won't Alter Capitalism's Icarus Trajectory] Reference
There have to be rules, ethical norms and institutional constraints governing profit-maximizing behavior, to ensure that the maximization operates for the social good. From Wordnik.com. [EconLog: Political Economy Archives] Reference
Marx's historical social theory permitted him to relate functional explanations of the instability of profit-maximizing capitalism to the first-person experiences of workers. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Theory] Reference
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