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Today, thanks to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), diverse software can communicate with each other.

API Economies and the Modularization of Production

The dozens of apps on your phone can communicate with each other thanks to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which revolutionized software beginning in the year 2000. What are the economic ramifications of modularized production, where add-ons and expansions abound?...
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What are buffer stocks?

Saddique Ansari • January 28, 2020 • 1 min read

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Buffer stock

A buffer stock is a system or scheme which buys and stores stocks at times of good harvests to prevent prices falling below a target range (or price level), and releases stocks during bad harvests to prevent prices rising above a target range (or price level).

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