1992The Journal of Economic EducationRequires access

Returns to Scale and Economies of Scale Revisited

Elchanan Cohn

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An earlier article published in this journal argued that economies of scale cannot exist unless the production function exhibits increasing returns to scale. Here, the condition that the firm faces constant input prices is added to this argument.

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An earlier article published in this journal argued that economies of scale cannot exist unless the production function exhibits increasing returns to scale. Here, the condition that the firm faces constant input prices is added to this argument.

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An earlier article published in this journal argued that economies of scale cannot exist unless the production function exhibits increasing returns to scale. Here, the condition that the firm faces constant input prices is added to this argument.

Key concepts: Returns to scale, Economies of scale, Scale (ratio), Economics, Argument (complex analysis), Production (economics), Constant (computer programming), Function (biology)

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