According to Stangler, for a company or a society there are diminishing returns to complexity.
For economies that have already used QE, the problem is one of diminishing returns.
The law of diminishing returns says the more you do something the less good it does you.
China is trying to shift its economy away from an investment-led model that delivers diminishing returns.
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The law of diminishing returns could kick in, making the scheme less effective and more expensive, it warned.
Moreover, a good part of it would be privately funded anyhow, and diminishing returns have undoubtedly set in.
The problem is that government outlays aimed at producing these benefits eventually reach a point of diminishing returns.
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In some richer countries, however, investments in human capital appear to have hit diminishing returns, the report argues.
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Seriously, there's only so much picture improving you can do before the law of diminishing returns demands some recognition.
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And they create new opportunities to make high-return investments in increased complexity before those diminishing returns again set in.
Asian exporters face slower growth abroad, high raw-material prices, growing competition from China and diminishing returns from cost cutting.
Thanks to the Internet, the first objective is subject to rapidly diminishing returns.
More photos can do some good, but after five, my analysis suggests, profiles pass a point of diminishing returns.
Research at universities has shown diminishing returns in terms of papers published and patents issued per dollars of funding.
If Yahoo's warning of a softening online ad market holds true for everyone, Google will be chasing after diminishing returns.
He has never wanted to entertain the idea of diminishing returns to QE - or not without long and complicated caveats.
In both cases, the problem was not just their inflammatory statements and reluctance to take direction but their diminishing returns, ratings-wise.
Still, the intensity of their determination to give me 10-level service posed the problem of diminishing returns from a single strategy.
And unless they repeal the laws of diminishing returns, marginal utility and supply and demand, the paper money will lose out.
Like many things in economics, QE faces the problem of diminishing returns.
Otherwise, the customer acquisition treadmill will hit diminishing returns very early on.
Wealth, it turns out, is subject to the law of diminishing returns.
For all his achievements, Argentina has had diminishing returns from Mr Menem.
Many companies have found that diminishing returns on stock market investments have made it too expensive to top up their final salary pension funds.
One problem, as the producers of the Rocky series know only too well, is that sequels are subject to the laws of diminishing returns.
The prof's New Economy spin was that frictional diminishing returns did not apply to software or Internet firms because of their tiny marginal unit costs.
Much like the over-expansion of government-led infrastructure projects, KFC China will experience diminishing returns if it continues to expand into areas with lower spending power.
It is a huge margin to find in development and each incremental gain in performance tends to become more difficult as diminishing returns set in.
At some point, China's investment must run into rapidly diminishing returns.
Unlike Mark Carney, Sir Mervyn does not think that quantitative easing - creating money and using it to buy government bonds - itself is encountering diminishing returns.
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