Or rather, to be more accurate, the marginal cost to the consumer closer to the marginal cost of production for the producer.
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Wood Mackenzie, an oil consultancy in Edinburgh, says that more than half of the international oil companies' long-term capital investments are now going into these four "resource themes" a huge shift, considering how marginal the companies once considered them.
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In formal terms, the consumer has an incentive to spend until the marginal benefit of additional spending, or additional health care is zero, so different from an efficient market, where consumers spend until the marginal benefit is equal to the marginal cost.
That is, that the value of the marginal spending is greater than the costs of the marginal taxation.
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In private markets, people are likely to acquire levels of education beyond basic literacy and numeracy, so the amount of education that would emerge in the market is probably that for which the marginal benefit is equal to the marginal cost.
Yet Mr Weber disagrees with previous writers such as Norman Cohn who treated millennial prophecy as the voice of the marginal, the disoriented or the oppressed.
The marginal, the mainstream, the real and the fictional are all whisked together in Gioni's exhibitions, offering up a series of beguiling narratives to the viewer.
There would be those savvy enough to incorporate as individuals and get the lower rate, and those lazy or uninformed enough to take the marginal rate the income tax gives them.
Soon these will stretch the whole way along the Marginal, the seafront road that is being turned into a grand six-lane highway sweeping around the horseshoe-shaped bay of Luanda, Angola's buzzing capital.
When the marginal return on assets begins to approximate the marginal costs of borrowing, says Ken Fisher.
You could compute a multiplier, which was simply the reciprocal of one minus the marginal propensity to consume, or, even more simply, the reciprocal of the marginal propensity to save.
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This seat is one of the most marginal in the country - and the question of finding school places sparked a political row.
If the marginal value that a customer receives for increased reliability is less than the marginal cost required to increase reliability for that customer, then a systemwide relocation of lines would likely lead to wasted resources.
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Supply-side tax cuts occur at the marginal rates of the income tax, whereas Keynesian tax cuts occur before those rates.
The basic idea is this: there are certain businesses where the marginal performance of the staff make all the difference.
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Again, her words seemed deliberately targeted for the tabloids and the marginal constituencies of the suburban fringes, but again made her sound timid and less consequential.
This is usually said to be, a rule of thumb, about 20% of the sum collected or, in another formulation, perhaps 35% of the marginal revenue of the system.
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Another yellow flag for us is the generous use of various rewards mechanisms, like stock options or other mechanisms, that have a tendency to provide a great deal of upside that may not be reflective of the marginal input of the actual executive.
For people with very high incomes, the rise in marginal tax rates would be smaller, but to the extent that itemized deductions rise with income, the loss of those itemized deductions means that the cut in marginal effective tax rates on high income people will be less than the cut in statutory rates.
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The marginal tax rate is the rate paid on the taxable income, in the highest tax bracket.
The marginal tax rate is the rate on the next dollar to be earned from any investment, enterprise or productive activity.
Gold could potentially overshoot the declining marginal cost to the downside.
For economists, the average value of a good or service is usually less important than the marginal value the cost or benefit of one more unit.
If the tax rate on dividends goes up to the top marginal rate, the number of companies paying dividends will most surely go down with it.
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We were also focused on the need to return the top marginal rate to the level it was under President Clinton, 39.6, for the wealthiest Americans, and that was achieved.
Then, under this new (which is very much the same as the pre-Bush, old, system) system they will then be taxed again at the top marginal rate of the individual recipient.
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For someone living in Las Vegas who got a 30-year fixed at 6.5% in 2007, its likely that their losses from failure-to-breach their mortgage contract exceeded the marginal cost of constructing the very house they were living in.
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In its place we can then simplify personal taxation: just treat all investment income (yes, dividends and capital gains) the same as we treat any other form of income, to be taxed at whatever is the appropriate marginal rate for the total income of the recipient.
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