The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns Is

question 225

Multiple Choice

The law of diminishing marginal returns is

• A)the same concept as economies of scale .
• B)another name for the law of diminishing marginal utility .
• C)important for long-run economic analysis.
• D)relevant to the production of goods, but not services.
• E)important for short-run economic analysis.

Understand the structure and characteristics of circular arguments and how they fail to provide real support for their conclusions.

Identify the fallacy of loaded questions and understand how they presuppose information that has not been established.

Analyze arguments for non sequiturs, where conclusions do not logically follow from premises.

Recognize the strategic misuse of appeals (to ignorance, emotion, authority) in arguments to persuade without substantive evidence.

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