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  2. Cost-shifting - Wikipedia

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    There are two important types: static cost-shifting (price discrimination), that is the ability to charge different prices to different customers. The other one is the dynamic cost-shifting , which means charging the maximal amount of money that the customer is able to pay (not necessarily the highest possible value, but the value that people ...

  3. Price discrimination - Wikipedia

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    An example is a high-speed internet connection shared by two consumers in a single building; if one is willing to pay less than half the cost of connecting the building, and the other willing to make up the rest but not to pay the entire cost, then price discrimination can allow the purchase to take place.

  4. The Price of Inequality - Wikipedia

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    The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future is a 2012 book by Joseph Stiglitz that deals with income inequality in the United States. He attacks the growing wealth disparity and the effects it has on the economy at large.

  5. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - Wikipedia

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    Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is a 2005 documentary film by director Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films about the American multinational corporation and retail conglomerate Walmart. [2] The film presents a negative picture of Walmart's business practices through interviews with former employees, small business owners, and footage of ...

  6. Monopoly - Wikipedia

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    Any company that has market power can engage in price discrimination. Perfect competition is the only market form in which price discrimination would be impossible (a perfectly competitive company has a perfectly elastic demand curve and has no market power). [46] [48] [49] [50] There are three forms of price discrimination.

  7. Ramsey problem - Wikipedia

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    The Ramsey problem, or Ramsey pricing, or Ramsey–Boiteux pricing, is a second-best policy problem concerning what prices a public monopoly should charge for the various products it sells in order to maximize social welfare (the sum of producer and consumer surplus) while earning enough revenue to cover its fixed costs. Under Ramsey pricing ...

  8. Category:Pricing controversies - Wikipedia

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    The Cost of Knowledge; Cottage cheese boycott; D. ... Gender-based price discrimination in the United States; Greedflation; I. 2011 Israeli social justice protests; K ...

  9. Gender-based price discrimination in the United States

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    A study by the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection found that, on average, women's products cost seven percent more than similar products for men. [3] The utilization of big data in business also apply to personalized price discrimination which involves the factor of a consumer's gender. [4]