Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In poht. econ., an abnormal condition of the market in which the general demand for commonities is inadequate to absorb the normal supply.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Polit. Econ.) Consumption of less than is produced; consumption of less than the usual amount.
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- noun economics Insufficient
consumption (for financial stability)
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Examples
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I have never understood how the idea of "underconsumption" ever caught on.
Scrooge and the Junker Fallacy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As should be obvious by now, much of the material that I have been forwarding is connected to major debates within Marxism, such as underconsumption / overaccumulation, dependency theory / Brenner critique, etc.
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Deirdre McCloskey writes that economists no longer view underconsumption as a threat to full employment.
In Praise of Temperance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Two factors are likely to make underconsumption persist, according to Mr. Dumas.
Germany Happy Paying Up to Keep Expansion on Track Alen Mattich 2011
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Similarly, Japan has long suffered from underconsumption and raising the individual income or sales tax would likely further depress consumer spending, hurting companies focused on the domestic market.
Lead Japan to Recovery, Mr. Kan Michael Auslin 2011
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Investment has to be balanced by consumption, otherwise you get underconsumption, overcapacity/overproduction, the rise of speculative investment vehicles, bubbles, and crashes.
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Note also Americans 'preference for expenditures that have a high signaling quotient -- overconsumption of goods like autos and housing, underconsumption of leisure and travel.
Who is Rich?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Krugman brings up underconsumption (wherein the working class borrows a lot of money because all the money is going to the rich) and overconsumption (in which the rich spend and that makes the next-most rich spend and so on, until everyone is spending too much to keep up with rich people whose incomes are growing much faster than everyone else's).
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This naturally reduced the demand for goods of all kinds and brought on what seemed to be overproduction, but was in reality underconsumption when judged in terms of the real world instead of the money world.
McCain This Morning: "The Fundamentals Of Our Economy Are Strong" 2009
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For short periods we can have overinvestment and overconsumption as well as underinvestment and underconsumption, all because of the way money works, especially fractional reserve banking.
Justin Fox, Fischer Black, Tyler Cowen, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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