Explain the law of "return to scale"

      

Explain the law of "return to scale"

  

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Wilfred
This is a long-term analysis of production it shows by how much total output will change as a result of a change in all factor inputs by same proportion.
Suppose we start from an initial level of input and output.
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GRAPHICAL PRESENTATION OF THE RETURNS TO SCALE
Returns to scale may be shown graphically by the distance between successive, multiplelevel- of-output isoquant, that is, isoquant that show levels of output which are multiples of same base level of output, e.g. X ,2X ,3X etc.
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Wilfykil answered the question on March 7, 2019 at 05:34


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