Consider a regional with a uniform distribution of population where every household consumes the same amount of a good. The regional government recently stated its
Consider a regional with a uniform distribution of population where every household consumes the same amount of a good. The regional government recently stated its
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Consider a regional with a uniform distribution of population where every household consumes the same amount of a good. The regional government recently stated its policy for the location of factories making the good: “A factory should reach the minimum point of its average production cost curve at an output of 1000 units. Since the total demand for the good is 4000 units, we should have 4 factories in the region. Since the distribution of the population is uniform, the factories should be distributed uniformly throughout the region” Comment on this policy as to in particular whether there should be more or fewer factories for efficiency?
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