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Let us turn our attention, for instance, to the sites used for shop and office purposes, and consider what we can regard as the marginal site in this connection.
For the surplus element arises only in so far as the costs of a business are lower than the marginal costs; and it is the marginal costs, which, with good reason, we are now endeavoring to analyze.
The marginal costs must include a normal profit, i.e. a profit which will cover earnings of management, the reward of risk and enterprise, interest on capital, but nothing further.
Marginal money costs reduce themselves in the last analysis to the payments which must be made to secure the use of the requisite agents of productions.
The payments which they could have commanded in alternative employments, tend in their turn to equal the derived marginal utilities of their services in those employments.
And the increment of utility which she derives from buying this marginal pound we call the "marginal utility" of sugar to her.
The marginal utility of a commodity to anyone diminishes with every increase in the amount he has.
We can, therefore, say in general terms that the price of a commodity measures approximately its marginal utility to the purchaser.
How can we speak here with a straight face of the relation between marginal utility and price?
These are very pertinent criticisms; but they do not make nearly as much nonsense of the notion of marginal utility as may seem at first.
When, therefore, it is said that the prices measure their respective marginal utilities, what exactly is meant?
The respective marginal utilities which she obtains from the different things she buys will thus be proportionate to their prices.
In the last chapter we examined the relation between utility and price, and found that the true relation was between the price and what we termed the marginal utility.
There is an essential difference between him and the "marginal coal mine" of which we spoke above.
A commodity tends to be produced on a scale at which its marginal cost of production is equal to its marginal utility, as measured in terms of money, and both are equal to its price.
The distinctive thing about a state of mind such as that just described is that the focal object is much clearer than the marginal objects.
As we examine these marginal objects further, we find that they are continually seeking to crowd into the center of attention and to become clear.
These, however, are quite unnecessary, except for elaborate works, in which they are chiefly used for notes or marginal references.
This volume was published without that running marginal abstract of the contents which is so common upon the books of its period.
"I have a book purchased of him by my grandfather, and which has marginal notes in the same hand."
How is one, it is asked, to balance the marginal unit of national honor involved in the continuance of a war with that marginal unit of extra taxation which is supposed to be its exact equivalent?
The arena was twelve feet wide, and sunk a foot and a half below a marginal path of ten feet, where spectators could walk.
There is also on the superior margin, about the middle of the upper wing, a white point, and at its inferior angle a marginal series of a few white points.
The premium comes from marginal income; the loss if it occurs would fall upon the parts of income having higher value to the insured.
It is a striking evidence of the importance of the marginal principle that insurance at such a cost should still be desired by men.
The marginal rows are placed in a plane posterior to the central, and as above noticed, the cells of which they are composed are widely different from the central.
They happened to be this identical sermon, but he was most interested in the marginal notes.
Even the revision did not greatly relieve this confusion beyond the addition of some helpful marginal renderings.
In course of time the compromise dialect may absorb the parents, though more frequently these will tend to linger indefinitely as marginal forms of the enlarged dialect area.
"I never look at the marginal references," said Kate, "though mine is a large Bible and has them."
Cornell studied it carefully, gave it his approval, and a copy of it with marginal notes in his own hand is still preserved.
An edition of Bacon, with marginal references and parallel passages, would show a more persistent recurrence of characteristic illustrations and sentences than perhaps any other writer.
Nor are the marginal regions less interested in these communications to and through them to the great outside world.
Describing a marginal line on a drawing; setting forth the principal features of an argument, or the details of a story, or the like.
"I should say that this is a marginal fragment of a Gas Company bond," said the banker slowly.
As if all this were not enough to show the nature and source of the error, the word was correctly printed in the marginal heading.
About four years since I made an abstract of it, upon which I cannot at present lay my hands; but I hope the marginal heads will in some measure supply it.
There have been added also, in the Third Edition, headings to the pages and a marginal analysis to the text of each dialogue.
Tyndall calls marginal structure, and still more crowded along the line upon which two glaciers unite, where he has called it longitudinal structure.
It would be easy to suppose that he might read this marginal reference as a suitable commentary on the text, and that one or more of the writers could have written it in the text.
My finding however is that the latter claim is only true when the marginal rate has been defined properly.
Having less unemployment will mean lower average taxes, and thus lower proper marginal rates, and thus more incentives for sustainable growth.
It must be mentioned that marginal tax rates have played a role in the deduction of the supply and demand curves.
For this model, with supply and demand schedules derived with marginal analysis of utility and profits, there is an important role for statutory marginal tax rates.
The reason for a lesser importance of marginal rates is that labor supply is not flexible, but rather fixed.
The reduction of statutory marginal rates reduced Phillips curve sensitivities, and induced larger wage claims and lower employment.
High exemption again applies to all citizens, but its effect is undone by an intermediate high marginal rate region.
The analysis above focuses our attention on the impact on individual behavior, where we regard the marginal calculation by agents themselves.
For example, exemption and other brackets are adjusted for last year inflation while the statutory marginal rates remain the same.
It might even be, then, that the best way to understand the dynamic marginal rate is to see it as a solution to this kind of dynamic inconsistency.
A result will be that the dynamic marginal equals the average tax rate, for all individuals.
Note that there is no need for a government deficit since the analysis on the dynamic marginal rate shows that progressive taxes need not be a drawback for the richer.
Hence, the tax system can be represented by a straight line, with an intercept and a marginal tariff.
Namely, economic theory assumes maximizing agents, and the condition for a maximum can normally be expressed in terms of marginals.
In fact, when tax parameters are indexed in a certain way, then the tax can have the same growth rate as income, and then the dynamic marginal rate equals the average tax rate.
The original document contains a marginal abstract of each of the four points that follow; but these abstracts are here omitted.
These move most slowly, as the marginal portions of the glacier advance at a much slower rate than its center.
It is also valuable for filling small beds, and for making marginal lines in the geometric garden.
That is, they need not rise before the mind in a marginal fringe or context of concomitant circumstances, which mean for us their date.
Again, to take another sort of variation, some feeling connected with your own body may have passed from a marginal to a focal place, even while I speak.
In the same person, the same word heard at different times will provoke, in consequence of the varying marginal preoccupations, either one of a number of diverse possible associative sequences.
The optical impression may affect solely the marginal consciousness, while the mental focus keeps engaged with rival things.
They are covered with marginal notes, and the additions which they have occasioned amount to almost a third of the original discourse.
She seemed much amused, and she registered her amusement in certain marginal notes as she read.
To aid this purpose the author has traced, in marginal notes, the succession of the leading ideas.
I still have the family Bible, a set of Shakespeare with the marginal notations made by father while he was at Oxford, and a few others.
The present copy is, upon the whole, large and sound: though not free from marginal notes and stains.
Trading of that character is difficult to trace and is usually presumed to be marginal trading.
Year by year, Roger came to an affectionate knowledge of his father, through the medium of the marginal notes.
A broad bowl; inner marginal band, the upper portion of which has a line of diamond spaces.
Basin-shaped, with a handle on one side and a lip on the other; simple marginal and basal band with oblique lines.
And there is not a single page in my history, or in yours, my brethren, on which the same marginal lament is not written.
Features of past cultures that cannot be incorporated atrophy or are taken up by marginal elements among the population.
This effect is produced by the gradual filling in of abandoned and broken-down marginal houses, with fallen masonry and drifted sand.
His Bible, with skeptical marginal notes, is still preserved, with the bad pages pasted together by a subsequent owner.
In an exhausted country, with no marginal resources, the outlook on the future would be much darker.
I can hardly conceive that any gentleman will vote against the bill on account of the error in the marginal note on the third clause.
In general the marginal notes are retained, while some others, apparently derived from David Buchanan's printed text, are added in a different hand.
In the case of the half cent stamp at least, we find an additional marginal imprint over the second and third stamps of the top row.
Most of them have been identified by his friends (it is feared with more regard for humor than accuracy) in marginal notes.
Plantings, whether large or small, are likely to be made on low-priced marginal land needing good care.
There are a few marginal references, and the chapter and letter of the parallel passages are given.
Each of the inner parallel lines is bound to a marginal on the opposite side by a band at right angles to it.
This figure is introduced to show the method of treatment of alternating triangles of varying depth of color and the breaks in the marginal bands or "lines of life."
She has a most observing thumb; and, I believe, cherishes her nails for the convenience of making marginal notes.
In our new nutritional behavior and in our new values, literacy plays a marginal role (including interaction at the dining table).
In almost every case the number of the paragraph is omitted in the manuscript, as are also sometimes the marginal headings of the paragraphs, and most of the other marginal notes.
A vast marginal range seemed to me on the contrary to surround the adolescent nephew, who was some three years, I judge, beyond me in age and had other horizons and prospects than ours.
Line divisions in prose selections will not correspond to the printed original, as shown by marginal line numbers.
Veil, a layer of threads extending from the margin of the cap to the stem (partial veil or marginal veil).
I discovered that in the deed from Thomas to Miller, although Miller's name stood in a sort of marginal note on the record book, it was nowhere in the deed itself.
Portions of the marginal lettering and the vertical division lines of the panes are also to be found.
Any lines that will appear on the book, such as the marginal lines, may be put in with a pencil to distinguish them.
The coalition has lowered marginal income tax rates and raised environmental taxes thus maintaining overall tax revenues.
Our running commentaries as I read the article through, would have made excellent marginal reading, if such notes could have been added for a future edition.
The ancestors had tested these effects and had added very many marginal notes to the volume, telling about the results of these tests.
Lest that should not be enough, the stitches are described in the text, and a marginal note shows at a glance where the description is given.
The actual output of a Trust, we shall find, will be determined at any point between the first unit of output and this marginal increment.
Like most marginal readings it is better than the text, and a great world of suggestive truth lies back of that little sentence.
All the books in his library, relating to this subject, were covered with marginal notes; some of them very curious.