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Economics FROM 4 ART

CHAPTER 1 : ECONOMICS OF SCALE

MERITS OF THE LAW OF VARIABLE PROPORTION
  • It shows low cost of production varies input when one factor is fixed
  • It shows how the producer substitute one factor changes and for the other when the relative price of factor changes and marginal product remains unchanged.
  • When the producer is experiences increasing scaleless variable factor should be employed return in scale.

Return to scale is a long run phenomenon when all factors of production are varies side of production and change in output as a result of change in the scale of production return changes in the factor occurs in the same percentage or proportion

par Claude Foumtum