Where does glut collide?

In economics, a glut is an excess of supply over demand; the 'general glut' was the nineteenth-century question of whether an economy could suffer overproduction of goods across the board, which Say's law denied and Malthus and Sismondi defended. Sowell's 1963 The general glut controversy reconsidered re-examined that debate. The referent is a condition of aggregate oversupply in a market or economy, visible in unsold inventory and falling prices, and it is unrelated to the glucose transporter proteins that share the shortened name GLUT.[1]

Unit

The excess of supply over demand in a market or across an economy

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Indicated by unsold inventories, falling prices, and idle capacity relative to output

In biochemistry, GLUT is the family of glucose transporter proteins that carry glucose across cell membranes by facilitated diffusion, with members such as GLUT1 and the insulin-responsive GLUT4 governing how tissues take up sugar. Mueckler and colleagues' 1985 Sequence and structure of a human glucose transporter reported the first such transporter's sequence. The referent is a class of membrane transport proteins, characterised by their kinetics and tissue distribution, and it collides with the economic term only through the acronym GLUT for 'glucose transporter'.[2]

Unit

The rate and affinity with which a transporter moves glucose across a membrane

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Characterised by transport kinetics (Km, Vmax), expression level, and the transporter's structure