Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being inelastic; lack of elasticity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of elasticity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
inflexible . - noun economics The
insensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the lack of elasticity
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Examples
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That's what short term inelasticity actually means.
Forbes.com: News Tim Worstall 2011
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The blog post you cite makes a strong assumption, namely inelasticity of demand for “not being a mother.”
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The cause of the unemployment is then identified as the inelasticity of the money supply.
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Macaulay, -- Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey, Leigh Hunt, -- were fully his equals in precision, and yet they knew how to be clear, acute, and definite, without that edginess and inelasticity which is so conspicuous in
Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay John Morley 1880
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Am I grossly overestimating the inelasticity of demand for gasoline?
Oil Econ Follow-up, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The most striking thing about these figures (to my mind) is the remarkable inelasticity of both supply and demand.
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Therefore, I think the fundamental problem with Prescott's thesis is that it doesn't take into account price inelasticity.
Kydland and Prescott win Nobel, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I think that there IS a something that goes way beyond inelasticity being the real core of the problem.
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The demand inelasticity has been reflected in the price.
Passport Capital Sees Oil Prices Holding Up Amy Or 2011
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That suggests a high degree of price-inelasticity.
China Trade and American Jobs Daniel Ikenson 2010
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