Much economic theory is based not on marginal analysis of totals but on analyzing the changes caused by increasing or decreasing those totals. Marginal cost is the increase in total costs resulting ...

Marginal costs are defined as the actual cost of increasing production by one unit, or money saved by decreasing production by one unit. Marginal costs include all fixed costs, such as materials ...

Marginal efficiency of capital (MEC) is the discount rate at which the present value of the future yields from a capital asset are equal to its cost of acquisition. The idea behind computing the MEC ...

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