overinvestment love

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  • noun Excessive investment, especially in one particular area

Etymologies

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over- +‎ investment

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Examples

  • He created this movie with dancer Jean-Baptiste André as a focus on the "overinvestment" of urban space.

    Animating the city Red 2008

  • He created this movie with dancer Jean-Baptiste André as a focus on the "overinvestment" of urban space.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Red 2008

  • This willful blindness has caused many economists, including the most recent Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman, to misinterpret the Austrian theory of the business cycle as a theory of "overinvestment," which it definitely is not.

    unknown title 2009

  • This willful blindness has caused many economists, including the most recent Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman, to misinterpret the Austrian theory of the business cycle as a theory of "overinvestment," which it definitely is not.

    Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy 2009

  • This willful blindness has caused many economists, including the most recent Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman, to misinterpret the Austrian theory of the business cycle as a theory of "overinvestment," which it definitely is not.

    Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy 2009

  • Relying on the framework of the Solow growth model, mainstream economists usually interpret the Austrian theory as one of "overinvestment" during the boom.

    LewRockwell.com 2008

  • "overinvestment" in "investment goods" (capital goods is the Austrian term), he knows just enough about it to understand that the Austrians place great theoretical importance on the shift from investment in the production of consumer goods to investment in the production of capital goods.

    Vox Popoli 2009

  • If the 'last mile' ESP can only charge you for maintaining an electric line to your house then we would want a little bit of overinvestment in that area.

    Electricity Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The tech/telecom bubble was characterized by a massive overinvestment in equipment, factories, etc.

    Bond Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • With $3.2 trillion in reserves, Beijing has ample firepower should it choose to spend more, but it would have to be careful to avoid side effects such as more inflation and overinvestment in some projects.

    China must battle inflation, fend off shocks: Zhou Reuters 2011

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