Texmaco improved quality, as the Japanese had earlier done, but on an economy of scale.
With volume, you may be able to increase that per-property profit due to economy of scale, buying materials in broke, and receiving significant discounts from contractors.
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Indeed, Salesforce.com exhibits the opposite of an economy of scale.
That third party is telling everyone of the level playing field and the economy of scale benefits it will have, but another manufacturer is moving ever closer to full integration of the hardware and software, threatening Samsung.
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Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith is trying to figure out how Europe can balance its local needs to have some sorts of data located within its borders with the need to get the economy of scale promised by cloud computing.
Competing in the search advertising market means getting search volume, and Heiner contends that the way Google does business makes it hard for anyone to get to the kind of economy of scale to make a search endeavor to work.
The Internet as a whole is very diverse in technologies and software, which is why it is so robust, but we are going to keep seeing these large entities suffering large if not global outages as long as they value economy of scale in purchasing and maintenance over true system diversity.
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In other parts of the economy, efficiencies of scale usually lead to lower prices.
However, as the ever-wise economist Steve Hanke points out (see p. 222), China does not have enough reserves, given the size of its economy and the scale of its banking system's bad loans.
Our nation deserves better choices than, on one hand, accepting the catastrophic damage caused by a failure like Lehman Brothers, or on the other hand being forced to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into an institution like AIG to protect the economy against that scale of damage.
Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.
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Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
First, as the examples of China, Poland, Romania and others have demonstrated, greater integration into the global economy and large-scale infusions of Western capital, technology and investment into command economies do not automatically assure a transition into market-based reforms and necessary levels of political liberalization.
But in much of the economy, the digital and the physical, these economies of scale are rapidly diminishing.
Set against the scale of the world economy, these are not vast gains around 0.1% of global GDP.
The improved American economy of the late 1940s, however, seems to illustrate the benefits of large-scale government stimulus.
One is the scale of rebalancing that the world economy requires, and the role of exchange rates in that process.
Unless we move away from a monetized economy, and opt in favor of bartering on a scale never seen before, then the intermediaries must remain.
And playing chicken would include going up to the last minute, which creates a lot of uncertainty for the global economy, on a scale that makes last week look like something very small and local.
No government in the global economy, and certainly not economies on the scale of the U.S., China, Japan and the European Union, can claim a prerogative over domestic action that entirely ignores the systemic affects of its policies.
The credibility associated with a project of this scale has significant potential for our economy.
"We must pay greater attention to the scale of new opportunities: a new economy is emerging, " which focuses more on creative industries and the cultural sector.
That calculation is included in a new analysis by the Scottish Government's chief economist, Gary Gillespie, setting out the scale of the task in getting the economy going again.
In fact, such has been the scale of capital inflows into the American economy in recent years a capital surplus is the necessary and automatic corollary of a current deficit that the dollar could easily fall even without outflows.
Mr Romney's website says that this law is "a quantum increase in the scale of the regulatory burden on the American economy".
Brian Krebs said he was no longer shocked by the scale and sophistication of the hi-tech crime economy.
To avoid such a slump, China should sharply scale back the role of the state in the economy, the report argues.
If the deal does go through, the British economy would certainly feel the effects of an injection of capital on such a scale.
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