Talk:Fixed cost

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Redirected to this article from "Indirect costs" (which means: Indirect cost = Fixed cost), I read in the article: "Indirect costs may be fixed or variable." Or this statement is wrong, or there should be no redirection. --Wissons 08:43, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Many of the Wikipedia articles on economic costs need a lot of work. There seems to be a lot of confusion between pages that discuss indirect, fixed, and sunk costs. The sunk cost page also veers to far into psychological economics which I disagree with... but of course that's a comment for the "Sunk Cost" page. I do believe fixed cost needs its own page as it is distinct from indirect cost. Fixed cost is a specific kind of cost that can define an indirect cost.

All fixed costs become variable in costs in the long run. (This is the definition of the short run/long run.