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Nov 4, 2022Liked by Brian Potter

More business focused, but a great text that goes deep into this is Economics of Strategy by Besanko et al. Please see below for the notes I took on the book. This topic begins on page 12:

https://antonzitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Economics-of-Strategy_f.pdf

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This is fabulous. As an economist who works in supply chain and operations, this nails so many points I wish I could drive into people's heads :)

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Great article! I think the dis-economies of scale is a great topic for you to expand upon. You mentioned the risk of component failure as a source of statistical dis-economy. In my opinion, the risk of a coordination failure is far more likely / relevant to construction and this increases as you add systems and size to prefab assemblies.

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What book is the Funk 2013 page from?

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