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Marginal analysis is an important decision-making tool in the business world. Marginal analysis allows business owners to measure the additional benefits of one production activity versus its costs.

Marginal analysis was the heart of early Austrian economics and was quickly adopted into mainstream economics, where it is central to modern microeconomic analysis. Amazingly, many people in business ...