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- adverb without
cost
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Examples
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Copyrights by contrast arise often costlessly and inadvertently: easy to create.
IPSC, first plenary session Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Communities have link-creating behaviors they engage in for reasons other than creating brand communities: entertaining/interesting — they create brand strength, costlessly.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Or, as we are violating basic laws of how the world works so we might as well throw aside thermodynamics too, just start costlessly changing salt water into light crude.
Oil: Marginal vs. Average Cost, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If goods were costlessly tradable and prices were flexible, then the two prices would have to be equal and the real exchange rate would always be one -- one candy bar for one candy bar.
What Determines Exchange Rates?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But to simply assume that it can do so costlessly, because "oil is oil," is to over-abstract the way actual markets actually work.
Oil is Oil, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Copyrights by contrast arise often costlessly and inadvertently: easy to create.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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When share compensation is used, the company proper gives up nothing that it can't costlessly replace and the shareholders suffer a loss in the percentage ownership to the compensated employees.
Executive Compensation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In this case, the appropriate liability for the oil producers would be zero: Offshore drilling would induce all those potentially affected to move elsewhere costlessly (or not to move there in the first place), and any subsequent spill would cause zero economic damage.
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In this case, the appropriate liability for the oil producers would be zero: Offshore drilling would induce all those potentially affected to move elsewhere costlessly (or not to move there in the first place), and any subsequent spill would cause zero economic damage.
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Valka has come to understand videogames, they seem to allow anyone to costlessly restart at any time.
January 2010 2010
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