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diseconomy
Economics disadvantage, such as lower efficiency or higher average costs, resulting from the scale on which an enterprise produces goods or services


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There is a tipping point where higher output results in higher production costs: a diseconomy of scale.
Maverick by Cook, Jerri L. / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Other crops, touted as solutions to the apparent diseconomy of current methods, offer even worse results.
The real scoop on biofuels by Tokar, Brian / Synthesis/Regeneration
What the authors interpret as the problem of diverse tastes can equally well be seen as a diseconomy of scale--and, with an elastic demand, the result of a lower cost is higher, not lower, expenditure.
The Size of Nations by Friedman, David / Independent Review
 
 
 
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