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price scissors

price scissors noun: the phenomenon where, for a certain group or sector of productive population, the overall valuation from their production for sale outside the group drops below the valuation of the demand of the group for goods produced outside the group after a period of reasonable equilibrium. For example, changing world price levels cause a country's exports to plummet in value, while the valuation of its imports remains relatively stable.

Noun

price scissors pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The phenomenon where, for a certain group or sector of productive population, the overall valuation from their production for sale outside the group drops below the valuation of the demand of the group for goods produced outside the group after a period of reasonable equilibrium. For example, changing world price levels cause a country's exports to plummet in value, while the valuation of its imports remains relatively stable.

Origin of price scissors

Calque of Russian ножницы цен (nožnicy cen), in reference to the two price trends appearing as the blades of a pair of scissors.

Questions about price scissors

What does price scissors mean?
Price scissors means the phenomenon where, for a certain group or sector of productive population, the overall valuation from their production for sale outside the group drops below the valuation of the demand of the group for goods produced outside the group after a period of reasonable equilibrium. For example, changing world price levels cause a country's exports to plummet in value, while the valuation of its imports remains relatively stable.
What part of speech is price scissors?
Price scissors is a noun.

Words near price scissors in the dictionary

  1. price range
  2. price realisation
  3. price realisations
  4. price realization
  5. price realizations
  6. price scissors
  7. price signal
  8. price signals
  9. price skimming
  10. price stability
  11. price tag

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