underinvest

Selfish and shortsighted is to underinvest on infrastructure.

Matthew Yglesias » Jindal’s Debt Analogy 2009

Company executives can then be blamed if they either underinvest or overinvest in spectrum.

Dropped Call? Blame the FCC L. Gordon Crovitz 2011

But the focus on people leads us to overinvest in the rewards for individual innovation and underinvest in the intellectual commons that make those innovations possible.

Facebook: Where genius was 1% inspiration, 99% timeliness Ezra Klein 2010

But the focus on people leads us to overinvest in the rewards for individual innovation and underinvest in the intellectual commons that make those innovations possible.

Facebook: Where genius was 1% inspiration, 99% timeliness Ezra Klein 2010

So if this program works, it could unlock a lot more private money, at a lot lower taxpayer risk, than either a traditional prize program, where the incentive is to underinvest, or a traditional subsidy, where taxpayers lose their investment if the program fails.

Heads taxpayers win, tails they don't lose Ezra Klein 2011

During the presentation at Logitech's analyst and investor day on Wednesday, Mr. De Luca said resources committed to the Revue caused Logitech to "underinvest" in other parts of its business.

Logitech CEO Admits Google TV Mistakes John Letzing 2011

Rather, the focus on short-term stock prices and earnings by industry and the fact that a large share of the benefits of R&D accrue to parties other than the firm that performs the R&D (Mansfield considers 11% to be an upper bound on the proportion of the surplus from R&D that firms typically capture for themselves) mean that companies grossly underinvest in R&D.

Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy 2010

Investing in very young kids produces huge gains, but because infants don't vote, we wildly underinvest in it.

The business lobby thinks forward 2010

People underinvest in information because some information makes life uncomfortable, revealing hard truths.

Peter M. Shane: We Need Your Input on Community Information Needs 2009

People underinvest in information because its content and impact are uncertain.

Peter M. Shane: We Need Your Input on Community Information Needs 2009