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| Costs: In economics, costs represent the resources or sacrifices incurred to produce goods or services. These include explicit costs (direct expenses like wages, materials) and implicit costs (opportunity costs, such as foregone alternatives). Costs influence production decisions, pricing strategies, and overall economic efficiency, essential in assessing profitability and resource allocation._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hal Varian on Costs - Dictionary of Arguments
I 458 Information/Costs/Shapiro/Varian: One of the most fundamental features of information goods is that their cost of production is dominated by the “first-copy costs.” Once the first copy of a book has been printed, the cost of printing another one is only a few dollars. The cost of stamping out an additional CD is less than a dollar, and the vast bulk of the cost of those $80 million movies is incurred prior to the production of the first print. I 495 These costs remain constant with no natural capacity limits for additional copies. >Information, cf. >Forgeries. Taken from: Information Rules Shapiro, Carl. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy Harvard Business Review Press. Kindle Edition._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
EconVarian I Hal R. Varian Carl Shapiro Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy Cambridge, MA 1998 |
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