Two ways to postpone diminishing returns are:

a. Increase labor and improve education.
b. Increase all resources together and make the production process more efficient.
c. Actually, there is no way to postpone diminishing returns.
d. Keep the government budget balanced and increase the money supply at a rate that keeps inflation low (e.g., at 2% or whatever the national goal happens to be).
e. Increase the quantity of capital.


.B

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