Fast Retailing charges one third the price that competitors charge and earns nearly five times the margin.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Costs are rising for consumers.

The costs can be high.

Transaction costs and efficiency

They are trying to keep costs down.

They are trying to keep costs down.

Can they possibly outweigh the costs?

C. Transaction costs and efficiency

The costs of managing the Social Security system are far smaller than those likely to be associated with privatized accounts.

In addition, there are social costs to consider.

Winning Over Globalization s Losers

But the costs don t stop there.

The answer is surprisingly simple fixed costs.

It is the fixed costs that limit the diffusion of the networks.

The verb to uniqlo ize (to cut costs dramatically through Chinese production and eliminating intermediaries) has entered Japan's business vernacular, as in Can we uniqlo ize the housing industry?

They are asking governments to cut expenditure while their economies are still vulnerable.

Predictive information allows various organizations to reduce costs or increase profits.

The costs are evident, they argue, but what are the benefits?

This cost would be spread over several years.

Of course, equity ownership in Russia is narrow most Russians do not even follow market indices. But increased capital flight will also affect something that ordinary Russians know and care about the ruble s exchange rate.

, including interest and costs, where appropriate.

In the UK, fines once helped defray the regulator s costs bad actors reduced the fees charged to the good ones, creating a positive feedback loop.

The benefits are between 28 and 220 times higher than the costs.

The benefits of driving moderately fast vastly outweigh the costs.

The geopolitical costs of a unilateral US war will be even higher.

But it will do so only if serious institutional deficiencies are eliminated.

These fixed costs need to be recouped through long periods of use.

It will lower transaction costs and increase labor productivity.

China was reducing its global imports, potentially reducing demand for exports from the US.

The social benefits would outweigh the costs by 40 to one.

The political costs for the ECB of making this type of mistake could be exorbitant.

The costs of globalization, and the resentments that it generates, are too obvious.

Second, it is too early to scale down the stimulus, as Japan and the US seem ready to do.

If you wish to get on in the world, you must not shrink from effort.

Benefits are estimated to end up about six times higher than the costs.

But the higher productivity growth and pressures to cut costs that result test a society's cohesion.

The costs incurred by the imprudent companies will be partly socialized.

When deciding whether to lay off a worker, a firm should take into account the social costs of doing so.

In other words, force becomes disproportionate when the costs of using it are too high.

Immediate welfare costs, for example, can be passed on to the next generation, which will encompass these immigrants' children.

Moreover, the benefits of slower population growth outweigh the adjustment costs.

The costs of war must be balanced against the costs of alternative actions. A high cost of war is certainly not a case for inaction, especially in the face of a serious risk that Iraq could obtain, and eventually use, weapons of mass destruction.

Mobile banking may lower the fixed costs faced by traditional banks.

More importantly, immigration's overall benefits outstrip the costs.