Question 4 Economies of scale ? help explain the success of small businesses ? can be avoided by purchasing supplies and raw materials in large quantities ? are available to small firms but not to large firms due to management inefficiencies ? are achieved when a firm reduces its average cost of production as it produces more
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Why is it that when small firms get bigger (increase their scale), they frequently see their average total costs decrease? Economies of scale are said to exist when average total cost decreases as output increases. Economies of scale primarily arise because as output increases, the production can be divided up into ever increasingly specialized tasks. But what kinds of countervailing forces might be at work to increase average cost as output increases?
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