Sentences with phrase «diminished economic returns»

Over the long term, the social and economic disadvantage of this early vulnerability is evident in lower educational achievement, social disadvantage, diminished economic returns and increased health, welfare and criminal justice costs.

The bottom line is that leasing solar panels is not a good economic decision for homeowners or a good business practice for building owners (commercial properties may make more economic sense), because leasing greatly diminishes the economic returns for building owners and makes money for the equipment owner, not the building owner.

Not exact matches

We see the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) interest rate hikes being put on hold for now amid lackluster growth and economic uncertainty, while the European Central Bank (ECB) looks to be running into diminishing returns from negative rates.

But most educated people believe that the gains to income from capitalism's triumph have been modest, that the poor have been left behind, that the Third World has been made miserable in aid of the enrichment of the First, that population growth must be controlled, that diminishing returns on the whole has been the main force in world economic history since 1800.

The point of diminishing returns for educational outcomes occurs with fewer students than is the case for economic efficiency.

The sculptural works in the show reference farming practices and consider the framework by which the economic concept of the law of diminishing returns was founded and explained.

Economic returns from converting verdant rainforests into furniture, paper, and wood chips — and then using the land for oil palm plantations — have swiftly diminished the availability of sites for reintroduction, while dramatically boosting the number of orangutans in need of rescue.

The annual demand criteria were developed to identify the economic sweet spot in a particular climate between generation and conservation, identifying the point of diminishing returns of envelope upgrades.

It is indeed possible to build even better insulated houses than the Passive Houses standard, but it has been well proven that the cost of this is not economic in most instances (the law of diminishing returns applies).

Because utility exhibits diminishing returns to increasing consumption, economic damages of climate change on a richer generation will have smaller negative effects on welfare than on a poorer generation.

This cap can be viewed as the economic equivalent of the «law of diminishing returns»; when you add more employees to get a job done there is an increase in productivity to a point and after that point efficiency drops.

Why would a Realtor who is already (by dint of his / her own efforts) making a good living «without» giving away a significant percentage of his / her income on a deal - a-month-or-more standard then decide to start giving away significant money in an effort to gain more business for «less» income per transaction... (has anyone heard of the negative economic principle known as «the principle of diminishing returns»?)