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The Economist's Fallacy

open access: yesJournal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2008
The economist’s definition of cost is totally insensitive to major differences in true cost.
Michael Scriven
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ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF DAIRY FARMS IN SELECTED EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2020
The aim of the study was to assess the economic viability of farms specializing in dairy cattle breeding in countries with the highest share of milk production in the EU.
Ewa Kołoszycz
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Opportunity Costs, Competition, and Firm Selection [PDF]

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The paper questions the standard economic assumptions that competing economic agents have identical reservation utility levels, and that when differences in opportunity costs exit, they can be conveniently represented by fixed costs.
Gamal Atallah
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Pairs Trading with Opportunity Cost [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Probability, 2014
Pairs trading is a trading strategy which is used very frequently in the financial industry. An investment opportunity arises when the spread between two assets, which historically have exhibited autoregressive behavior, deviates from its recent history. In this case, the investor takes a long position in the asset which is expected to outperform going
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Valuing health outcomes: developing better defaults based on health opportunity costs

open access: yesExpert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research, 2020
Background Current health economic analysis guidelines emphasize the importance of using nationally appropriate cost and valuation inputs. However, some countries lack national data, and some analyses focus on interventions with costs and benefits at ...
J. Ochalek   +3 more
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Subjective preferences and alternative costs [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2013
The present paper is an exploration of the economics of subjectivism and opportunity or alternative costs. Most contemporary economists pay lip service to these concepts, but when push comes to shove, all too often they jettison them. We shall illustrate
William Barnett II, Walter E. Block
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Costs of Quality: Exploratory Analysis of Hidden Elements and Prioritization using Analytic Hierarchy Process [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Supply and Operations Management, 2015
Cost of Quality analysis is emerged as an effective tool for the industrial managers for pinpointing the deficiencies in the system as well as for identifying the improvement areas by highlighting the cost reduction opportunities. However , this analysis
Sailaja A, P. C. Basak, Viswanadhan K G
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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Costs of Reduced Nitrogen Fertilizer

open access: yesAgriculture, 2022
The reduction of nitrogen (N) fertilizer use is a possible greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation option, whereas cost estimation highly depends on assumptions of the yield response function.
Andreas Meyer-Aurich, Yusuf Nadi Karatay
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Opportunity Cost Classification of Goods and Markets

open access: yesCentral European Public Administration Review, 2015
Sixty years ago, Samuelson’s “Pure Theory of Public Expenditure” expounded the classification of goods, and Bain’s “Economies of Scale, Concentration and the Condition of Entry in Twenty Manufacturing Industries” expounded the structure-conduct ...
Davor Mance   +2 more
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Social and geographical inequalities in the choice of foot therapy as preventive care: A nationwide registry study on Danish people with diabetes

open access: yesNordic Journal of Health Economics, 2019
Diabetic foot ulcers are a serious complication of diabetes with high costs and adverse sequelae, such as lower-extremity amputations. International guidelines recommend that all people with diabetes should have their feet inspected at least once a year.
Christine Marie Bækø Halling   +1 more
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