A main tenet of economics, the efficiency principle states that things are working most efficiently when the allocation of resources leads to marginal benefits that are equal to marginal social costs.
If marginal costs and benefits aren't equal, it means somebody owes somebody else...something. If a factory is pumping toxic fumes into the air, causing the neighborhood nearby to have a rate of lung cancer and costing them expensive medical bills, the company needs to pay for the cost that equals the cost that the neighborhood is incurring from the pollution to make things efficient.
Just like pollution can cause deadweight loss (the measured gap between reality and equilibrium), so too can a surplus or shortage of goods in the market. A surplus means the producer has too high of a quantity of goods, which is wasteful. A shortage means consumers want more, but can't have it, which is lost value to the economy. In a perfectly efficient world, supply equals demand, and marginal benefit equals marginal costs.
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finance a la Shmoop what is marginal revenue well it's that last dollar the [money racing to the finish line]
last sale of a Sunday at baskin-robbins before the year closes at midnight on [ice cream sale]
New Year's Eve it's that last flying car sale
you made it at 11:58 p.m. as the ball was dropping in Manhattan sold it for a [ball floating in space]
hundred grand even felt different from the first car you sold this year why
well because from an accounting perspective it had already been built
shipped Frette painted with that new flying car smell smell yeah and the [flying with air freshener]
revenue had generated was likely meaningfully more profitable or at least
from an accounting perspective then the first car sold why well because so many
of its costs had already been accounted for or paid for or amortized on the [clip board check list]
books that factory that stamped out its last product for the year already had a
year's worth of high use behind it amer tizen the cost of the factory and
everything that went into winning that last marginal dollar of revenue so that
from an accounting perspective to make the first sale of that flying tesla for
a hundred grand well that cost a lawn and company like a billion dollars to
make the millionth test and sell it for a hundred grand well as it was
completely made by the robots a you know cost Elon in company only about 20 grand
like way higher profit margins the key concept to worry about when you think
about marginal revenues is the marginal contribution to profits which that last
dollar brings to the bottom line party anyway we hope you got something out of [dollars meeting together]
this video it's probably one of the last ones not to be made by robots least
around here
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