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  2. Marginal product - Wikipedia

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    Average physical product (APP), marginal physical product (MPP) In economics and in particular neoclassical economics, the marginal product or marginal physical productivity of an input (factor of production) is the change in output resulting from employing one more unit of a particular input (for instance, the change in output when a firm's labor is increased from five to six units), assuming ...

  3. Marginal product of labor - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the marginal product of labor (MP L) is the change in output that results from employing an added unit of labor. [1] It is a feature of the production function and depends on the amounts of physical capital and labor already in use.

  4. Margin (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Within economics, margin is a concept used to describe the current level of consumption or production of a good or service. [1] Margin also encompasses various concepts within economics, denoted as marginal concepts, which are used to explain the specific change in the quantity of goods and services produced and consumed.

  5. Production function - Wikipedia

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    Graph of total, average, and marginal product In economics , a production function gives the technological relation between quantities of physical inputs and quantities of output of goods. The production function is one of the key concepts of mainstream neoclassical theories, used to define marginal product and to distinguish allocative ...

  6. Diminishing returns - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, if the third kilogram of seeds yields only a quarter ton, then the marginal cost equals per quarter ton or per ton, and the average cost is per 7/4 tons, or /7 per ton of output. Thus, diminishing marginal returns imply increasing marginal costs and increasing average costs. Cost is measured in terms of opportunity cost. In this case ...

  7. Marginal concepts - Wikipedia

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    marginal product of labor; marginal product of capital; marginal rate of transformation, the rate at which one output or result must be sacrificed in order to increase another output or result; marginal revenue product; marginal propensity to save and consume; marginal tax rate; marginal efficiency of capital; Marginalism is the use of marginal ...

  8. Marginal product of capital - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the marginal product of capital (MP K) is the additional production that a firm experiences when it adds an extra unit of input. [1] It is a feature of the production function , alongside the labour input.

  9. Production (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Improving product competitiveness often means lower prices and to the producer lower producer income, to be compensated with higher sales volume. Economic well-being also increases due to income gains from increasing production. Market production is the only production form that creates and distributes incomes to stakeholders.