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SMITH, ADAM: A Scottish professor (born 1723, died 1790) who is considered the father of modern economics for his revolutionary book, entitled An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations published in 1776.
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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 FACTOR COST The change in total factor cost resulting from a change in the quantity of factor input employed by a firm. Marginal factor cost, abbreviated MFC, indicates how total factor cost changes with the employment of one more input. It is found by dividing the change in total factor cost by the change in the quantity of input used. Marginal factor cost is compared with marginal revenue product to identify the profit-maximizing quantity of input to hire.
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The portion of aggregate output U.S. citizens pay in taxes (30%) is less than the other six leading industrialized nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, or Japan.
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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." -- Peter Drucker, management consultant
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