For years it seemed that American consumers' demand for liquid fuel was price inelastic-whether it was to drive their cars or get their brains going in the morning.

这么多年来，美国消费者对液体燃料的需求似乎是没有价格弹性的——不管这个燃料是用来驱动汽车，还是用来在早上刺激大脑。

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Cutting prices in a price-inelastic situation reduces total revenue.

在价格不影响需求的情形下，降价会减少总的收入。

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Provided also that the demand for health care is own-price inelastic, the same conclusion is obtained when the uncertainty is about the productivity of health care.

在上述假设和健康护理的需求价格弹性是缺乏弹性的假设下，当不确定是关于健康护理生产率的不确定时，也可以得到同样的结论。

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As we discussed in the earlier article, Starbucks primarily serves a demographic from which demand is relatively price inelastic, meaning that changes in price does not impact demand.

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In my paper, I went on to examine whether the increase in imports was attributable to American demand for Chinese goods being price inelastic.

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There are plenty of reasons that American demand for Chinese goods is price inelastic including, most importantly, that there are limited substitutes for those goods.

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