That included closing plants, cutting 14 percent of its worldwide work force, and creating new selling terms for its retail partners that aim to decrease returns and consequently decrease costs.
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Joseph Tainter posits that decreasing returns to social complexity prevent large, organizationally complicated states from achieving the economic gains one might naively expect them to attain by their increased scale.
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This is set in motion via the adrenergic ( sympathetic ) outflow from the brain, but the heart is unable to meet requirement because of the low blood volume, or decreased return.
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We're long past the point of decreasing returns accomodating Sparkzilla here; there's only so much disruption of this page and the project we're expected to put with for such a trifling set of gripes.
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However, they added, new requirements for mutual funds to disclose fees and other information to investors " should be designed to provide investors with real value rather than serve mainly to increase costs and decrease returns ."
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Homogeneous production functions with constant returns to scale are first degree homogeneous, increasing returns to scale are represented by degrees of homogeneity greater than one, and decreasing returns to scale by degrees of homogeneity less than one.
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Conversely, if the firm is able to get bulk discounts of an input, then it could have economies of scale in some range of output levels even if it has decreasing returns in production in that output range.
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If the distance between those isoquants increases as output increases, the firm's production function is exhibiting decreasing returns to scale; doubling both inputs will result in placement on an isoquant with less than double the output of the previous isoquant.
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While copper mining declined in the area in the 1930s and 1940s, the Copper Queen continued to be mined by the open-pit process during the years following World War II . With decreasing returns, Phelps Dodge closed it in 1985.
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Likewise, it has diseconomies of scale ( is operating in an upward sloping region of the long-run average cost curve ) if and only if it has decreasing returns to scale, and has neither economies nor diseconomies of scale if it has constant returns to scale.
