Or at least give it a run for its money as a discipline that lets closet miniaturists like me garden at a manageable scale and price.
Stephanie Gallo says her family's firm can profitably mine both ends of the price scale.
When it comes to buying e-books at the high end of the price scale, consumers have no trouble doing so.
There is clearly a possible application here for SMEs, especially as economies of scale push the price down as more cards are ordered.
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And he wants to move up the price scale to luxury sedans and sport utility vehicles, just as Honda and Toyota started doing in the 1980s.
In another view, a system of micro-tasking rather than a full-time job means that it is too small a scale to really price out the cost of these benefits on a per task level.
The most frequent instigators of such large scale disruptions are corrupted price signals or war and its aftermath.
Now supply and demand dance on a wobbly scale, which corrupts price signals and misdirects capital and resources.
That's a lot of money, he admits, but says economies of scale will drive the price down quickly.
The authors say that they expect the use of highly toxic methods will continue to grow among small-scale miners as the price for gold continues to rise.
Hadoop has arrived as a force in the business computing landscape because it offers people the ability to store and analyze data at scale for an affordable price.
It has enabled Qualcomm, says Kvaal, to gain scale and better compete in price.
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When a customer requests that his new Bentley visit the Mulliner shop, the price can easily scale up another six-figures--and more.
With its scale, Iron Mountain can be price competitive.
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Chinese manufacturers, heavily subsidized by their own government and relying on vast economies of scale, have helped send the price of conventional solar panels plunging and grabbed market share far more quickly than anyone anticipated.
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But the government is keenly aware that large-scale oil production may come at a price.
Separate factories allow for more variation, but at the price of fewer economies of scale.
"On a scale of 1-10 measuring asset price 'irrationality, ' we are probably at a 6 and moving in an upward direction" he wrote.
Japan had pushed product design and the assembly-line genius of Henry Ford to new heights, which let it scale up volume and push down the price of Old Economy products.
In the tech-hardware business, competition over price is really a function of scale: firms with higher volume can make things more cheaply.
With scale, new technologies become more competitive in price.
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Even grander in scope--and likely price--are the full-scale city communities, much like those in Dubai, which are being developed around the nation.
Scale and an uncanny ability to predict commodity-price movements has allowed Glencore to make decent returns in a business where margins are wafer-thin.
Even before it has moved into full-scale production, the plane has already increased in price by 75%, and it has so far failed to meet basic performance standards.
Netflix has the scale to make it difficult for new entrants given low price points and expensive content costs.
Another way of reducing the price of meat is to aim for economies of scale when it comes to slaughter.
Nathalie Gamory, of Monaco Real Estate, an affiliate of the Savills agency, says that on Monaco's scale, a short distance can make a vast difference in price.
The correlation between daily changes in closing price in the two price series is 0.93, on a scale where 1.0 would tell you that one change is always a fixed multiple of the other.
Even larger leaps in sizing technology are being made by companies like Acustom Apparel, which uses 3D body scanners along with pattern-making software to scale the creation of custom-fitted clothing at a digestible price point.
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Amazon built unparalleled warehousing, distribution and customer management economies of scale that still exert, by some estimates, a 19% price advantage over Walmart.
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