Economics
- Passenger-mile or pmi, a unit of passenger transportation quantity
- Post merger integration, the integration phase directly after the legal merger of at least two companies
- Private medical insurance
- Private Mortgage Insurance, credit enhancement insurance
- Purchasing Managers Index, a measure of manufacturing activity
- Performance Monitoring Indices, measuring the performance of a private company for IPO
- Performance of Manufacturing Index
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Famous quotes containing the word economics:
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)
“I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.”
—Jacques Chirac (b. 1932)
“The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)