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Cost added by producing one additional unit of a product or service
In economics, marginal cost (MC) is the change in the total cost that arises when the quantity produced is increased, i.e. the cost of producing additional
Marginal_cost
Concept in economics
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
Weighted average cost of capital
Weighted_average_cost_of_capital
Marginal cost of reducing pollution
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
Marginal_abatement_cost
Graph used in economics
various types of cost curves, all related to each other, including total and average cost curves; marginal ("for each additional unit") cost curves, which
Cost_curve
Concept in economics
Alfred Marshall, drew upon the idea of marginal physical productivity in explanation of cost. The concept of marginalism came from Carl Menger, William Stanley
Marginalism
Economic theory
In economics, diminishing returns means the decrease in marginal (incremental) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production
Diminishing_returns
Process to determine the highest profits for a firm
called the marginal revenue ( MR {\displaystyle {\text{MR}}} ), and the additional cost to produce that unit is called the marginal cost ( MC {\displaystyle
Profit_maximization
Total cost divided by number of goods produced
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
Average_cost
Set of constraints conceptualised as a border
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
Margin_(economics)
Benefit lost by a choice between options
of profit. Marginal cost is abbreviated MC or MPC. The increase in cost caused by an additional unit of production is called marginal cost. By definition
Opportunity_cost
Concept in microeconomics
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
Marginal_factor_cost
Strategy of setting prices based on a fixed markup percentage
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
Cost-plus_pricing
Aspect of monopolistic markets
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
Monopoly_price
Total economic cost of production
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
Total_cost
Additional total revenue generated by increasing product sales by 1 unit
of production. Marginal revenue is a fundamental tool for economic decision-making within a firm's setting, together with marginal cost to be considered
Marginal_revenue
Change in output that results from employing an added unit of labor
∆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
Marginal_product_of_labor
Variable costs of production divided by total output
prices, where MC {\displaystyle {\text{MC}}} denotes marginal cost. Variable cost Fixed cost Cost curve Mankiw, N. Gregory (2001) Principles of Microeconomics
Average_variable_cost
American economic and social theorist (born 1945)
include The Age of Resilience (2022), The Green New Deal (2019), The Zero Marginal Cost Society (2014), The Third Industrial Revolution (2011), The Empathic
Jeremy_Rifkin
Economic loss due to taxes or subsidies
the tax. Excess burdens can be measured using the average cost of funds or the marginal cost of funds (MCF). Excess burdens were first discussed by Adam
Excess_burden_of_taxation
Market structure with one buyer
MRP curve in the diagram. The right-hand side is the marginal cost of labour (roughly, the extra cost due to an extra worker) and is represented by the green
Monopsony
Design concept in economics
for it. Cost-sharing is easy when the marginal cost is constant: in this case, each agent who wants the service just pays its marginal cost. Cost-sharing
Cost-sharing_mechanism
Benefit derived from consuming a product
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
Marginal_utility
Market structure in which firms are price takers for a homogeneous product
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
Perfect_competition
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
Marginal_cost_of_public_funds
Concept in neoclassical economics
responsibility for agent's action. Mathematically, social marginal cost is the sum of private marginal cost and the external costs. For example, when selling
Social_cost
Difference between the cost and the selling price of a good or service
the difference between the selling price of a good or service and its marginal cost. In economics, markups are the most direct way to measure market power:
Markup_(business)
Combination of losses of goods
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
Economic_cost
Change in output resulting from employing one more unit of a particular input
In economics and in particular neoclassical economics, the marginal product or marginal physical productivity of an input (factor of production) is the
Marginal_product
Concept in economics
price and cost to the minimum of the long run average costs. At this point, price equals both the marginal cost and the average total cost for each good
Profit_(economics)
Market structure with a single firm dominating the market
and the possibility of a high monopoly price well above the seller's marginal cost that leads to a high monopoly profit. The verb monopolise or monopolize
Monopoly
Approach to selling a product or service
Businesses often set prices close to marginal cost during periods of poor sales. If, for example, an item has a marginal cost of $1.00 and a normal selling price
Pricing_strategy
Cost of a company's funds
In economics and accounting, the cost of capital is the cost of a company's funds (both debt and equity), or from an investor's point of view is "the
Cost_of_capital
Term in economics
Private Marginal Cost (PMC) is simply the cost of producing the chemicals whereas the Social Marginal Cost (SMC) is the PMC less the net social cost of discarding
Shadow_price
Topics referred to by the same term
analysis Marginal concepts Marginal cost Marginal demand Marginal product Marginal product of labor Marginal propensity to consume Marginal rate of substitution
Marginal
Method of profit maximization
minus cost, marginal profit equals marginal revenue minus marginal cost. Hall, Mary (January 10, 2022). "Marginal Revenue and Marginal Cost of Production"
Marginal_profit
Australian economist and author (born 1953)
will set marginal revenue equal to marginal cost. For the firm in "perfect competition", this means price = marginal revenue = marginal cost = average
Steve_Keen
In economics, an imposed cost or benefit
environmental pollution. Pigou argued that a tax, equal to the marginal damage or marginal external cost, (later called a "Pigouvian tax") on negative externalities
Externality
Economic model of competition
The outcome of the model equilibrium involved firms pricing above marginal cost; hence, the competitive price. In his review, Bertrand argued that each
Bertrand_competition
Concept in public economics
is the marginal benefit to each person of consuming one more unit of the public good, and MC {\displaystyle {\text{MC}}} is the marginal cost of providing
Samuelson_condition
Procedures to optimize practices in cost efficient ways
cost accountants include standard costing and variance analysis, marginal costing and cost volume profit analysis, budgetary control, uniform costing
Cost_accounting
Economic concepts based on incremental change
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
Marginal_concepts
Economic theory
have treated an employer's marginal cost as being his or her wage bill, this is not entirely accurate. Keynes isolates user cost as a separate component
Keynes's theory of wages and prices
Keynes's_theory_of_wages_and_prices
Measure of firm's market power
{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
Lerner_index
Behavior of individuals and firms
producer compares marginal revenue (identical to price for the perfect competitor) against the marginal cost of a good, with marginal profit the difference
Microeconomics
When production relates to consumer preferences in an economy
achieved if every produced good or service has a marginal benefit equal to or greater than the marginal cost of production. In economics, allocative efficiency
Allocative_efficiency
Lost economic efficiency
where marginal benefit (to society) does not equal marginal cost (to society). In other words, there are either goods being produced despite the cost of
Deadweight_loss
Problem of setting prices by a public monopoly
(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
Ramsey_problem
Halting output when costs are excessive
should operate, if at all, at the level of output where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Second, the firm should shut down rather than operate if
Shutdown_(economics)
American statistician and econometrician (1895–1973)
value tax and then provide such goods and services to the public at marginal cost (in many cases for free). This is an early expression of the Henry George
Harold_Hotelling
Microeconomic pricing strategy to maximise firm profits
price they are willing to pay. The marginal consumer is the one whose reservation price equals the seller's marginal cost. Sellers that engage in first degree
Price_discrimination
Amount of a good that sellers are willing to provide in the market
curve is the marginal cost curve above the shutdown point—the short-run marginal cost curve (SRMC) above the minimum average variable cost. The portion
Supply_(economics)
Economic measure of business efficiency
C/C}{\Delta q/q}}.} The cost-production elasticity equation can be rewritten to express the relationship between marginal cost and average cost. E c = Δ C / C
Minimum_efficient_scale
System for trading electrical energy
with marginal costs, retail tariffs almost entirely relied on volumetric pricing (based on the meter readings recorded monthly), and fixed cost recovery
Electricity_market
Type of measurement for the cost of an aircraft
Flyaway cost is a measure of the cost of an aircraft. It values the aircraft at its marginal cost, including only the cost of production and production
Flyaway_cost
costs and constant marginal cost equal to c > 0 {\displaystyle c>0} . Firm B also has no fixed costs, and has constant marginal cost equal to g c {\displaystyle
Limit_price
Type of oligopoly
market demand function. Market with two firms i = 1, 2 with constant marginal cost ci Inverse market demand for a homogeneous good: P(Q) = a − bQ Where
Duopoly
Imperfect competition of differentiated products that are not perfect substitutes
charges a price that exceeds marginal costs. The MC company maximises profits where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Since the MC company's demand
Monopolistic_competition
Government incentive given to professional sports teams
in crime rates, etc. The social marginal cost is equal to the sum of the private marginal benefits. The marginal cost is known only by the government
Stadium_subsidy
Concept in economics
Two different types of cost are important in microeconomics: the marginal cost of serving one more customer and the fixed cost to enter the market. Most
Natural_monopoly
Change of pricing based on costs
relationship between these values is based on the ratio of the price to marginal cost: a b s o l u t e P a s s t h r o u g h = p a s s t h r o u g h E l a
Pass-through_(economics)
Application of economics in a business
output. Both the marginal cost and marginal revenue are extremely important in economics as a firm's profit is maximized when the marginal cost is equal to
Managerial_economics
Economic concept
allocation of capital goods in a socialist economy that was based on the marginal cost of production. Under a capitalist economy, managers of firms are ordered
Production_for_use
Neoclassical economic model
allocation, by directing enterprise managers to set price equal to marginal cost in order to achieve Pareto efficiency. By contrast, in a capitalist
Lange_model
Tax on activity generating negative externalities
improve Pareto efficiency. Ideally, the tax is set equal to the external marginal cost of the negative externalities, in order to correct an undesirable or
Pigouvian_tax
Study of the economic impact of scientific research and institutions
depicts the marginal benefit and marginal cost curves of a firm in the market for science. The vertical axis displays the marginal cost and marginal benefit
Economics_of_science
Economics term
face a perfectly elastic demand curve and can set its price (P) above marginal cost (MC) without losing revenue. This indicates that the magnitude of market
Market_power
Economic Model
costs, marginal cost will be non-decreasing. This is consistent with a cost function where marginal cost is flat for a range of outputs, marginal cost is
Bertrand–Edgeworth_model
System property to handle growing work
where marginal cost of additional workload is nearly constant." Serverless technologies fit this definition but you need to consider total cost of ownership
Scalability
Price discrimination technique
the rational firm will set the per unit charge above or equal to the marginal cost of production, and below or equal to the price the firm would charge
Two-part_tariff
2015 book by Paul Mason
labour theory of value over the marginal utility theory, and drawing particularly on Jeremy Rifkin's The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Peter Drucker's Post-Capitalist
PostCapitalism
Resource use exceeding carrying capacity
In microeconomics, this is the point where the marginal cost of a consumer is greater than their marginal utility. The term overconsumption is quite controversial
Overconsumption
Ability to handle changing demands of resources
where marginal cost of additional workload is nearly constant." Serverless technologies fit this definition but you need to consider total cost of ownership
Database_scalability
Canadian-American economist and Nobel Laureate (1914–1996)
concept of congestion pricing in networks, formalized arguments for marginal cost pricing, and contributed to optimal income taxation. James Tobin described
William_Vickrey
Measure of the economic effect of a tax
the product such that the price of the good equals marginal cost (supply curve and marginal cost curve are indifferent). If an excise tax (a tax on the
Tax_incidence
Situation in which nothing can be improved without something else being hurt
that the market is supplying is equal to the marginal value consumers place on it, and equals marginal cost. In other words, when every good or service
Economic_efficiency
Rules and methods for pricing transactions between enterprises under common ownership
to the pricing. From marginal price determination theory, the optimum level of output is that where marginal cost equals marginal revenue. That is to say
Transfer_pricing
Offering several products as one
bundling is most suitable for high volume and high margin (i.e., low marginal cost) products. Research by Yannis Bakos and Erik Brynjolfsson found that
Product_bundling
Economic concept proposed by Erik Lindahl
the good, taken in totality for all the individuals is equal to the marginal cost of supplying that good. Lindahl tax is the optimal quantity times the
Lindahl_tax
Classes of possible reproductive strategies
in the future. In other situations, the marginal cost of offspring produced increases while the marginal cost of offspring forgone decreases. When this
Semelparity_and_iteroparity
Increases in the exposure to risk when insured, or when another bears the cost
by the purchase of health insurance. Assume health care has constant marginal cost of $10 per unit and the individual's demand is given by Q = 20 − P.
Moral_hazard
Adverse environmental contamination
the social cost of pollution until a certain point. At this point the damage of one extra unit of pollution to society, the marginal cost of pollution
Pollution
Type of market structure
price of the good or service above marginal cost (MC). The greater extent to which price is raised above marginal cost, the greater the market inefficiency
Imperfect_competition
System with multiple networked computers
the range where marginal cost of additional workload is nearly constant." Serverless technologies fit this definition but the total cost of ownership, and
Distributed_computing
Additional production per extra unit of capital
change of capital input, ∆TR/∆K) is higher than the marginal cost of capital, MCK (marginal cost of obtaining and utilizing a machine, for example). Thus
Marginal_product_of_capital
that subsidy is required to achieve marginal cost pricing when the Mohring effect is relevant. The average cost of a passenger-journey includes the average
Mohring_effect
Economic Model regarding demand
will set marginal costs equal to marginal revenue. This idea can be envisioned graphically by the intersection of an upward-sloping marginal cost curve and
Kinked_demand
Concepts in economics
Long-run marginal cost (LRMC) is the added cost of providing an additional unit of service or product from changing capacity level to reach the lowest cost associated
Long_run_and_short_run
German costing methodology
either Marginal Planned Cost Accounting or Flexible Analytic Cost Planning and Accounting. The GPK methodology has become the standard for cost accounting
Grenzplankostenrechnung
Economic model of price determination in a market
by marginal cost: Firms will produce additional output as long as the cost of extra production is less than the market price. A rise in the cost of raw
Supply_and_demand
conjecture depended on the slope of the marginal cost function: for example, with quadratic costs of the form (see below) cost = a.x2, the consistent conjecture
Conjectural_variation
Topics referred to by the same term
a joint effort between groups to eliminate graffiti Marginal abatement cost, the marginal cost of reducing pollution Noise abatement, strategies to reduce
Abatement
Market dominated by a small number of sellers
Assume that marginal cost is C M = 12 {\displaystyle C_{M}=12} . By following the profit maximisation rule of equating marginal revenue to marginal costs,[clarification
Oligopoly
Cost function in economics
average cost (LRAC) is the cost function that represents the average cost per unit of producing some good. Long-run marginal cost (LRMC) is the cost function
Long-run_cost_curve
Study of interactions between travellers and infrastructure
the same marginal cost. In traditional transportation economics, System Optimum is determined by equilibrium of demand function and marginal cost function
Traffic_flow
Unused optical fibre
potential network capacity of telecommunication infrastructure. Because the marginal cost of installing additional fibre optic cables is very low once a trench
Dark_fibre
Tool for analyzing potential welfare costs and benefits of mergers between firms
residual demand curve intersects above its marginal cost curve. This assumption is made as if marginal cost decreased with quantity, as it can in some
Merger_simulation
Size of a firm that results in the lowest possible production cost per unit of output
average cost curve is faced with the market price P indicated in the upper graph. The firm produces at the quantity of output where marginal cost equals
Optimal_firm_size
Financial concept
infighting, etc.). The marginal benefit of further increases in debt declines as debt increases, while the marginal cost increases, so that a firm
Trade-off theory of capital structure
Trade-off_theory_of_capital_structure
Ranking of available sources of energy
low marginal costs: they do not have to pay for fuel, and the sole contributors to their marginal cost is operations and maintenance. With cost often
Merit_order
American political economist (1839–1897)
Other works by George defended free trade, the secret ballot, free (at marginal cost) public utilities/transportation provided by the capture of their resulting
Henry_George
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English, French, Spanish, and Dutch : from Middle English, Old French cardinal ‘cardinal’, the church dignitary (Latin cardinalis, originally an adjective meaning ‘crucial’). The surname may have denoted a servant who worked in a cardinal’s household, but was probably more often bestowed as a nickname on someone who habitually dressed in red or who had played the part of a cardinal in a pageant, or on one who acted in a lordly and patronizing manner, like a prince of the Church.A bearer of the name, of unknown origin, is documented in Montreal by 1666.
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Feminine form of Latin Martinus, MARTINA means "of/like Mars."Â
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Dedicated to God Mars; Lady; From the God Mars; Dedicated
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Renowned Friend; Lives by the Sea; Female Version of Marvin
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Warring; Like Mars; Roman God Mars
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Feminine form of Roman Latin Marinus, MARINA means "of the sea."
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(×žÖ·×¨Ö°× Ö´×™× Ö¸×”) Hebrew name MARNINA means "rejoice."
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Warring.
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Spanish form of Roman Latin Martialis, MARCIAL means "of/like Mars."
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Warring.
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English form of Roman Latin Martialis, MARTIAL means "of/like Mars."
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From the High Tower; Variant of Marlene; Derived from Madeline; Variant of Madeline Woman from Magdala
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