The economics of lock-in threaten to overcome the economics of efficiency.

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The cost differential is driven by air pollution, interconnection and the economics of fuel efficiency.

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We can save our bottom lines, and maybe our butts, by taking economics--and efficiency--seriously.

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My first encounter with the concept of market efficiency dates back to my first course in economics.

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Customer service efficiency is another reason Sprint likes the iPhone, despite its brutal economics.

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Menenez had a background in economics, had worked at Google and Goldman Sachs, but her real passion was in automation and efficiency in processes.

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But in any business struggling for energy and capital, energy efficiency is often the highest-return, lowest-risk investment available, limited less by technology or economics than by culture and imagination.

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