Sentences with 'overproduction'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overproduction and other words derived from it.
• « Eventually, there was simply too much out there and not enough people could afford to buy it, since one of the things about the proletariat, one of their forms of "alienation", was their inability to buy the very things they made. This resulted in a "crisis of overproduction" and a massive economic collapse. »
• « Prices had already begun to fall in 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when Britain began to "dump" its surplus manufactured goods, the result of wartime overproduction, in American ports, where they were sold cheaply and competed with American-made goods. »
• « In 1818, to worsen the economic situation, prices for American agricultural products began to fall in both the United States and Europe; overproduction of commodities such as wheat and cotton coincided with the recovery of European agriculture, which reduced demand for American crops. »