• 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...
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  • various types of cost curves, all related to each other, including total and average cost curves; marginal ("for each additional unit") cost curves, which...
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  • Abatement cost is the cost of reducing environmental negatives such as pollution. Marginal cost is an economic concept that measures the cost of an additional...
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  • upon the idea of marginal physical productivity in explanation of cost. The neoclassical tradition that emerged from British marginalism abandoned the concept...
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    In economics, diminishing returns means the decrease in marginal (incremental) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production...
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    called the marginal revenue ( MR {\displaystyle {\text{MR}}} ), and the additional cost to produce that unit is called the marginal cost ( MC {\displaystyle...
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  • axis. Marginal costs are often also shown on these graphs, with marginal cost representing the cost of the last unit produced at each point; marginal costs...
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  • double taxation. Marginal cost of capital (MCC) schedule or an investment opportunity curve is a graph that relates the firm's weighted cost of each unit...
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  • chose to waste time. So it is adding more cost. The concept of marginal cost in economics is the incremental cost of each new product produced for the entire...
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  • production. Marginal cost differs from average cost as it solely provides the additional cost of one unit, rather than the average cost of each unit...
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  • opportunity cost at the margin, or more narrowly to marginal pecuniary cost — that is to say marginal cost measured by forgone cash flow. Other marginal concepts...
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  • Cost-plus pricing is not common in markets that are (nearly) perfectly competitive, for which prices and output are such that marginal cost (the cost...
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  • ∆VC = ∆(wL). Marginal cost is ∆(Lw)/∆Q. Now, ∆L/∆Q is the reciprocal of the marginal product of labor (∆Q/∆L). Therefore, marginal cost is simply the...
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    cost of one additional unit of production is called marginal cost. The marginal cost can also be calculated by finding the derivative of total cost or...
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  • production Marginal cost (MC): Marginal cost is obtained from the additional cost that results from increasing output by one unit. It is the additional cost per...
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  • The outcome of the model equilibrium involved firms pricing above marginal cost; hence, the competitive price. In his review, Bertrand argued that each...
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    of production. Marginal revenue is a fundamental tool for economic decision making within a firm's setting, together with marginal cost to be considered...
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  • producer with market power, where a firm charges a fixed mark-up over its marginal cost.[page needed][page needed] Mathematically, the markup rule can be derived...
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  • responsibility for agent's action. Mathematically, social marginal cost is the sum of private marginal cost and the external costs. For example, when selling...
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  • The marginal cost of public funds (MCF) is a concept in public finance which measures the loss incurred by society in raising less revenues to finance...
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  • In microeconomics, the marginal factor cost (MFC) is the increment to total costs paid for a factor of production resulting from a one-unit increase in...
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    becomes negative. Marginal product of labor Marginal product of capital Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages Marginal cost Production theory...
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  • both marginal utility and marginal cost, and here is the key to the apparent paradox. The marginal cost of water is lower than the marginal cost of diamonds...
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  • faces a market price equal to its marginal cost (P = MC). This implies that a factor's price equals the factor's marginal revenue product. It allows for...
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    it has absolute market power and can set a price above the firm's marginal cost. The monopoly ensures a monopoly price exists when it establishes the...
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  • cost accountants include standard costing and variance analysis, marginal costing and cost volume profit analysis, budgetary control, uniform costing...
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  • (industries with decreasing average cost). A natural monopoly earns negative profits if it sets prices equal to marginal cost, so it must set prices for some...
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    Externality (redirect from External cost)
    environmental pollution. Pigou argued that a tax, equal to the marginal damage or marginal external cost, (later called a "Pigouvian tax") on negative externalities...
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  • analysis Marginal concepts Marginal cost Marginal demand Marginal product Marginal product of labor Marginal propensity to consume Marginal rate of substitution...
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  • {P-MC}{P}}} where P is the market price set by the firm and MC is the firm's marginal cost. The index ranges from 0 to 1. A perfectly competitive firm charges...
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