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  2. Cost-push inflation - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Cost-push inflation is a purported type of inflation caused by increases in the cost of important goods or services where no suitable alternative is available. As businesses face higher prices for underlying inputs, they are forced to increase prices of their outputs. It is contrasted with the theory of demand-pull inflation.

  3. Push–pull strategy - Wikipedia

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    Push–pull strategy. The original meaning of push and pull, as used in operations management, logistics and supply chain management. In the pull system production orders begin upon inventory reaching a certain level, while on the push system production begins based on demand (forecasted or actual demand). The CONWIP is a hybrid between a pure ...

  4. Pullback - Wikipedia

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    Precomposition with a function probably provides the most elementary notion of pullback: in simple terms, a function of a variable where itself is a function of another variable may be written as a function of This is the pullback of by the function. It is such a fundamental process that it is often passed over without mention.

  5. Phillips curve - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Phillips curve is an economic model, named after Bill Phillips, that correlates reduced unemployment with increasing wages in an economy. [1] While Phillips did not directly link employment and inflation, this was a trivial deduction from his statistical findings.

  6. Demand-pull inflation - Wikipedia

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    Demand-pull inflation occurs when aggregate demand in an economy is more than aggregate supply. It involves inflation rising as real gross domestic product rises and unemployment falls, as the economy moves along the Phillips curve. This is commonly described as "too much money chasing too few goods ". [1]

  7. Demand-pull theory - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the demand-pull theory is the theory that inflation occurs when demand for goods and services exceeds existing supplies. [1] According to the demand pull theory, there is a range of effects on innovative activity driven by changes in expected demand, the competitive structure of markets, and factors which affect the valuation of new products or the ability of firms to realize ...

  8. Pushing on a string - Wikipedia

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    Pushing on a string. Pushing on a string is a figure of speech for influence that is more effective in moving things in one direction than another – you can pull, but not push. If something is connected to someone by a string, they can move it toward themselves by pulling on the string, but they cannot move it away from themselves by pushing ...

  9. Built-in inflation - Wikipedia

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    Built-in inflation. Built-in inflation is a type of inflation that results from past events and persists in the present. Built-in inflation is one of three major determinants of the current inflation rate. In Robert J. Gordon 's triangle model of inflation, the current inflation rate equals the sum of demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation ...