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Economies And Diseconomies Of Scale In The American Two-Year Colleges, Duncan Roger Butts
Economies And Diseconomies Of Scale In The American Two-Year Colleges, Duncan Roger Butts
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The economies of scale concept holds that as an enterprise increases its output, the cost per unit of output decreases. The concept also holds that as the production output increases further a point is reached at which the cost per unit of output increases, marking the start of diseconomies of scale. Furthermore, the concept holds whether the enterprise is a manufacturing or education institution.;Community college financial, enrollment, and award data for the ten years between 1976 through 1985 were obtained from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). Appropriate data selection produced a sample of 758 state, local, or state-local …