Price scissors

Price scissors is a pictorial expression from the economy. It describes the divergence between revenues and costs for a product. The production costs rise, while the achievable price of the product on the market (and thus the proceeds) fall. This makes the production of the product increasingly unprofitable.

The term appears particularly frequently in connection with European agriculture , since here European production costs are often very high compared to those of other continents and therefore European agricultural products are not profitable without subsidies .

literature

• Karl Bayer: The price gap in agriculture , Munich (Weiss) 1928
• Georg Gothein: The gaping price gap as the cause of the global economic crisis , Berlin-Grunewald (Rothschild) 1930
• The price gap in agriculture , Munich (Bayer. Landwirtschaftsverlag) 1948