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  2. Law of increasing costs - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the law of increasing costs is a principle that states that to produce an increasing amount of a good a supplier must give up greater and greater amounts of another good. The best way to look at this is to review an example of an economy that only produces two things - cars and oranges. If all the resources of the economy are put ...

  3. Profit maximization - Wikipedia

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    Here too the profit is not maximized and the firm has to lower its output level to maximize profits. In economics, profit maximization is the short run or long run process by which a firm may determine the price, input and output levels that will lead to the highest possible total profit (or just profit in short).

  4. Economies of scale - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, and are typically measured by the amount of output produced per unit of time. A decrease in cost per unit of output enables an increase in scale that is, increased production with lowered cost. [ 1]

  5. Diminishing returns - Wikipedia

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    An example would be a factory increasing its saleable product, but also increasing its CO 2 production, for the same input increase. [2] The law of diminishing returns is a fundamental principle of both micro and macro economics and it plays a central role in production theory .

  6. Cost curve - Wikipedia

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    The total cost curve, if non-linear, can represent increasing and diminishing marginal returns.. The short-run total cost (SRTC) and long-run total cost (LRTC) curves are increasing in the quantity of output produced because producing more output requires more labor usage in both the short and long runs, and because in the long run producing more output involves using more of the physical ...

  7. Marginal cost - Wikipedia

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    Marginal cost. In economics, the marginal cost is the change in the total cost that arises when the quantity produced is increased, i.e. the cost of producing additional quantity. [ 1] In some contexts, it refers to an increment of one unit of output, and in others it refers to the rate of change of total cost as output is increased by an ...

  8. Theory of constraints - Wikipedia

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    SCADA. v. t. e. The theory of constraints ( TOC) is a management paradigm that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints. There is always at least one constraint, and TOC uses a focusing process to identify the constraint and restructure the rest of the organization around ...

  9. Friedman doctrine - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Milton Friedman. The Friedman doctrine, also called shareholder theory, is a normativetheory of business ethicsadvanced by economist Milton Friedmanwhich holds that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.[1] This shareholder primacyapproach views shareholders as the economic engine of the organization and ...