The moral superiority of high marginal income taxes suddenly waned.

For Microsoft, the problem is that the marginal cost of software is zero.

The market price of anything is always equal to the marginal cost.

Some have collective shocks to the marginal utility of leisure.

To put it in economics jargon, efficiency requires equating the marginal cost associated with allocation (both in acquiring information about the relative benefits of different projects and in monitoring investments) with the marginal benefits.

The Secretary General had recommended eliminating several reports, meetings, and activities of marginal usefulness.

The best known tools for this are margin requirements and minimum capital requirements.

Examples include the Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks tool or the tools under development by the WHO Choice project.

In the health sector, UNICEF, in partnership with the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), has developed a prioritization method called marginal budgeting for bottlenecks (MBB) that first identifies implementation cost restraints in the health system and then estimates the marginal costs of overcoming these constraints.

The peripheral nature of the NATO Russia Council was clearly not enough and did not work.

Environmental issues are of paramount importance in marginal countries because their impact on human survival is immediate and direct.

Even so, such marginal forces do not yet constitute a system for redressing grievances.

And these verbal assaults are no longer limited to marginal opposition voices they are now entering the mainstream media.

The consumption discount rate should account for the possibility that, as consumption grows, the marginal unit of consumption may be considered to have less social value.

Unfortunately, that perception pushes the policy response in the direction of too much remedial action, even when the marginal returns are low.

And the higher marginal tax rates would reduce incentives to work and to invest, further impeding economic activity.

The former earn an annual salary (including fringe benefits!) totaling 2,000 the later may earn only half that.

After all, there is no way whatsoever to calculate the marginal products of different individuals in cooperative productive activities.

But, as the marginal productivity gains from such investment began to fall, senior managers survival and compensation continued to be tied to stock market performance.

Creating new assets for investors to hold costs resources, and the greater the demand for such assets the higher the marginal cost of creating them.

Denmark offers the most lavish subsidy of all, exempting electric cars from the country s marginal 180 registration tax on all other vehicles.

The big question today is whether all these alternative approaches can add up to more than a bit of desperate tinkering around the edges.

Saudi Arabia estimates that 143 square kilometres of core areas and 629 square kilometres of peripheral areas were damaged because of military activities.

But, given that the top US marginal income tax rate is 35 , he certainly is a tax avoider on a grand scale.

Some countries stated that they are concerned about long term sustainability of their arid marginal regions, which are highly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

The theoretical effect on employment is unambiguously positive, because marginal workers will be more productive as they work longer.

Because of the universality of the digital language, its ease of use, and the virtual absence of marginal costs for producing or disseminating information, the state s tools of control have been weakened and depleted.

Taxes. Obama would raise the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher income individuals and small businesses.

The associated revenue increase was, at least, across the board, rather than the unbalanced hike in marginal tax rates at the top that was enacted.

Tax revenue can be raised without increasing marginal tax rates by limiting the tax subsidies that are built into the current tax code.

Romney had no miracle cure, either, but he attempted to tap into voters wishful thinking bias, by promising to reduce the size of the government and cut marginal tax rates.

Marginal changes to existing arrangements are unlikely to be sufficient to respond to technological forces, reduce social tensions and young people s fears, or address growing fiscal burdens.

This is analogous to the idea of diminishing marginal private utility of private consumption, and is relatively uncontroversial, although researchers disagree on its magnitude.

(The government already exempts parishes and dioceses, thereby drawing a distinction between institutions that are central to the freedom to practice one s religion and those that are peripheral to it.)

Moreover, permanent status obliges members to assume their burdens fully and with a sense of responsibility a permanent seat obliges a country to take a loftier view and to give structural development priority over ephemeral matters. Would the Security Council possess the same authority with only non permanent members?

Marginal parties that are not connected to political violence and do not incite hatred should probably be left in peace distasteful as their rhetoric may be.

New portfolios in such service lines will not be actively sought. As appropriate, in consultation with clients, ad hoc services with limited added value and marginal returns will be phased out.

Usually, this principle means that marginal tax rates should be similar at different levels of labor income, for various types of consumption, for outlays today versus tomorrow, and so on.

The so called marginal revolution that occurred in Europe in the late 19th Century, led by Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons, and Léon Walras, gave rise to what is known as neoclassical economics.

And some of these industries may seem sort of marginal to you, but these are the gross sales for low I.P. industries, industries with very little copyright protection, and there's the gross sales of films and books.

Despite large cuts in marginal income tax rates at the start of the Bush administration, however, job growth between 2000 and 2007 was half the rate of the previous three decades.

The decades long neglect of extensive areas of marginal farmland was a boon for the establishment of unique ecological conditions favorable for the survival of animal species rarely found in other parts of Europe.

This country focused approach requires a light corporate structure streamlined and tailored to a targeted number of product lines and markets, with significant cutting of current fixed costs as marginal services are eliminated.

Today, however, collective action is of a different magnitude. Because of the universality of the digital language, its ease of use, and the virtual absence of marginal costs for producing or disseminating information, the state s tools of control have been weakened and depleted.

Opponents of tax increases should see that, because such revenue raising is really cutting government spending, it does not imply the adverse incentive effects of raising marginal tax rates.