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The law of diminishing returns asserts that, after a point, as we add more and more equal doses of a variable input (such as labor) to a fixed input (such as land), the amount of extra product will fall off.  1, fiche 1, Anglais, - variable%20input

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(...) when we do hold one input or group of inputs constant and vary the remaining inputs, we see that the varying inputs have less and less of the fixed inputs to work with. Consequently, we are not too surprised that such extra varying inputs begin to add less and less extra product.  1, fiche 2, Anglais, - extra%20varying%20input

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