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Costs of Production Summary

Types of Production There are three main sectors in the economy –the primary sector consists of industries that extract or cultivate natural resources –the secondary sector consists of industries that fabricate or process goods –the service sector consists of trade and information industries

Productive Efficiency Businesses choose from different production processes –a labour-intensive process employs more labour and less capital –a capital-intensive process employs more capital and less labour The lowest-cost process provides productive efficiency

Economic Costs Economic costs include –explicit costs which are payments to resource supplies outside a business –implicit costs which are what owners give up by being involved in a business Economic profit is found by subtracting economic costs (both explicit and implicit) from total revenue

Production in the Short Run In the short run –some inputs are fixed (such as capital) –other inputs are variable (such as labour) Inputs are combined to make a business’s total product –average product is total product divided by the number of workers –marginal product is the extra total product (output produced) from employing an additional worker

Production in the Short Run

The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns Short-run production is determined by the law of diminishing marginal returns –the addition of more variable input causes marginal product to fall after some point –average product also falls after some point

The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns It is possible to prove the law of diminishing returns through a type of argument known by the latin term “reductio ad absurdum”. “opposite leads to absurdity”

The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns Consider what would happen if you used a flower pot to grow food: – If the law of DMR were false, then, as you used more labour, the total product of food grown in the flower pot would rise at a faster and faster rate, until the world’s entire food supply could be provided from this single pot. Since this conclusion is obviously “absurd”, the law of DMR must be true!

Relating Average and Marginal Values Average and marginal values are related using three rules –if an average value rises then the marginal value must be above the average value –if an average value falls then the marginal value must be below the average value –if an average value stays constant then the marginal value must equal the average value

Total, Marginal, and Average Product Total, Marginal, and Average Product Figure 4.4, page 106

Costs in the Short Run Short-run costs include –fixed costs (costs of all fixed inputs) –variable costs (costs of all variable inputs) –total cost (fixed costs + variable costs)

Marginal Cost Marginal cost is the extra cost of producing an extra unit of output –it equals the change in total cost divided by the change in total product The marginal cost curve is shaped like a “J” because of the law of diminishing marginal returns

Per-Unit Costs Per-unit costs include –average fixed cost (fixed costs divided by total product) –average variable cost (variable costs divided by total product) –average cost either total cost divided by total product or average fixed cost + average variable cost

The Family of Short-Run Cost Curves The Family of Short-Run Cost Curves Figure 4.8, page 111

Copyright © 1998 by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited. All rights reserved. Returns to Scale (a) All inputs can be changed by the same proportion in the long run –increasing returns to scale means the % change in output > the % change in inputs –constant returns to scale means the % change in output = the % change in inputs –decreasing returns to scale means the % change in output < the % change in inputs

Returns to Scale (b) Increasing returns to scale are caused by the division of labour or specialized capital or specialized management Constant returns to scale arise whenever making more of a product means repeating exactly the same tasks Decreasing returns to scale are caused by management difficulties or limited natural resources

Costs in the Long Run (a) Long-run average cost is the minimum short-run average cost at every output The long-run average cost curve is saucer-shaped because of various ranges of returns to scale –initial range of increasing returns to scale –middle range of constant returns to scale –final range of decreasing returns to scale

Costs in the Long Run (b) Costs in the Long Run (b) Figure 4.9, page 116

Critic of the Modern Corporation John Kenneth Galbraith (pp ) –suggests that ownership and control are separated in large corporations –argues that shareholders (the owners) give up control to managers –holds out the possibility that managers are more interested in maximizing sales than in maximizing profit