The free rider problem is when the private marginal cost of taking action to protect the environment is greater than the private marginal benefit, but the social marginal cost is less than the social marginal benefit.

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

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

Product bundling is most suitable for high volume and high margin (i.e., low marginal cost) products.

According to the Coase Conjecture, a monopolist selling a durable good must sell it at marginal cost.

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.

Moreover, an existing pipeline network implies that this conventional gas can be brought to Europe at a low marginal cost.

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.

They calculated that 75 to 80 of economic growth did not come from increasing the capital output ratio at least not if the private marginal product of capital was taken as an indicator of the social marginal product.

These measures have sometimes had a heavy social cost.

Education is increasingly online as well, and will soon enable students everywhere to receive first rate instruction at almost a zero marginal cost for enrolling another student.

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 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.

Neoclassical economic theory, which has dominated in the West for a century, holds that each individual s compensation reflects his marginal social contribution what he adds to society.

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.

Skeptics might add that China s cost advantage also includes circumventing environmental and social regulations.

It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting beside market prices.

Some have collective shocks to the marginal utility of leisure.

The moral superiority of high marginal income taxes suddenly waned.

Chukchi Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

Blogs and social networking platforms encourage seamless, cost free association the most efficient form of organization imaginable.

This set of motivations (cost, personal relationships and ethnicity and social connections) is particularly important for SMEs.

While economic growth reduces the cost of redistribution policies and additional social policies, it alone will not suffice.

The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China.

The Laptev Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

The Lazarev Sea is a marginal sea of the Southern Ocean.

The Islamists are neither a marginal political group nor a terrorist force.

So, as austerity undermines growth, debt reduction will be marginal at best.

A powerful argument for reserving capital punishment for murders is marginal deterrence.

However, there's a lot of non political stuff happening that gets marginal attention.

Yet, the participation of many developing countries in global trade has been marginal.

Most importantly, it is the source of livelihood for many economically marginal communities.

In recent decades, social policies have increasingly involved some form of means testing of eligible beneficiaries, ostensibly to enhance cost effectiveness.

In addition, institutional arrangements for social development are being established with time specific targets to ensure cost efficiency and maximum impact.

The cost of the prolonged Somali civil war is enormous in terms of its direct social, economic, political and environmental impacts.

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

Whatever role Berlusconi chooses to play, it is unlikely to be a marginal one.

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

Tackling social and environmental problems at the same time with the same solution yields great cost savings, wealth generation and national security.

A third factor is that the violence has become a marginal issue even within Thailand.

More broadly, the ECB s marginal lending facility is an indirect means of monetizing sovereign debt.

To be sure, the precautionary and proactionary principles remain relatively marginal to mainstream political discourse.

The Norwegian Sea () is a marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway.

There could be an international agreement that every country would impose a carbon tax at an agreed rate (reflecting the global social cost).

Of particular concern is the environmental cost of China s development model, and the many internal and social problems that China has to tackle.