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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| To achieve the reflective effects the architects wanted, columns were spaced 3m apart (closer than strict structural efficiency requires), but results justify the small diseconomy. When one industry creates costs that must be shared by all others, the useful science of economics calls it an "external diseconomy. That is the ultimate diseconomy because a fiscally efficient district that inadvertently degrades teaching and learning purchases those efficiencies at the cost of undermining its mission. |
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