law of diminishing returns

Examples of diminishing returns

diminishing returns
We restrict all factors devoted to the accumulation of human capital in order to exhibit diminishingreturns.
The income and religiosity variables are logged because we expect their effects to display diminishingreturns at their highest values.
The larger they grow, the more efficient they become at heat regulation, though they reach a point of diminishingreturns.
So, we are seen to always live in a world of constant returns to scale and diminishingreturns to the variable factor.
But the large task of editing this volume must have been subject to a law of diminishingreturns.
Once the point of eradication is approached, however, the use of increasing numbers of targets produces diminishingreturns.
Our model uses a special set-up with linear demand curve, diminishingreturns technology and linear emission function.
The idea of diminishingreturns to effort expended upon the land became generally accepted in economics.
Once institutions enter the picture, their coordination solutions involve positive feedbacks that were absent in theoretical models based on pervasive diminishingreturns.
Therefore, additional layers are likely to suffer from diminishingreturns.
Epistasis of neither the ' diminishingreturns ' nor ' increasing returns ' type was visible.
Given diminishingreturns to capital, rich countries should grow less rapidly than poor countries.
This pattern suggests that social diffusion produces diminishingreturns, not accelerating effects.
We will also see diminishingreturns associated with political moderation.
Since land and water are region specific, the regional level production functions exhibit diminishingreturns to scale.
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