diminishing returns

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noun increases not proportional to more investment

noun. total amount of money lost

In agriculture the law is the opposite one of diminishing returns.

And, at that point, the Law of Diminishing Returns comes into operation.

This is seen most clearly in the diminishing returns from land.

The law of diminishing returns is the broadest principle of value.

Land is subject to what is called the law of diminishing returns.

In smoking there is, thank heaven, no law of diminishing returns.

Capital is a form of Value; and, consequently, it cannot possibly take on a shape not subject to the law of diminishing returns.

Relatively, therefore, diminishing returns operate in every country.

Men are merely adapting their conduct to the conditions imposed by gravitation and diminishing returns.

Diminishing returns of indirect agents is a special case of the universal law of the diminishing utility of goods.