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FACTORY: The building and equipment (the physical capital) at a particular location used for the production of goods and services. A factory often takes the form of the conventional assembly-line system, but it need not. As the building and equipment used for production, a factory can also be restaurant, doctor's office, or university classroom. Moreover, while a factory is often associated with the notion of firm or business, they need not be one and the same. A firm can, often does, own more than one factory and a factory can be owned by more than one firm.
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Lesson 14: Production | Unit 4: Long-Run Production
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Decreasing Returns To Scale
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- Decreasing returns to scale:
- Decreasing returns to scale result when a given proportional increase in all inputs results in a less than proportional increase in production.
- Two notable reasons why long-run production experiences decreasing returns to scale:
- Management Control
- Fixed External Inputs
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MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO IMPORT The change in imports purchased from the foreign induced by a change in income or production (national income or gross domestic product). The marginal propensity to import (abbreviated MPM) is another term for the slope of the imports line and is calculated as the change in imports divided by the change in income or production. The MPM plays a role in Keynesian economics. It augments the slope of the aggregate expenditures line and is part to the multiplier process. A related marginal measure is the marginal propensity to consume.
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