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.

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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.

To define an interest rate fully, allowing comparisons with other interest rates, both the interest rate and the compounding frequency must be disclosed.

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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.

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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.

Second, China s central bank still controls interest rates by enforcing a roughly three percentage point spread between deposit rates and lending rates.

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.

This ratio is called the mechanical advantage.

Central banks respond to lowered demand by reducing interest rates and to higher expected inflation by raising interest rates.

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.

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