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> a firm maximizes profit by producing that quantity of output where marginal revenue equals marginal costs.
This is a pretty fundamental result in microeconomics. The profit maximization section of the wiki article explains it quite well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_product_of_labor
The usual disclaimers about underlying assumptions apply of course.
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> a firm maximizes profit by producing that quantity of output where marginal revenue equals marginal costs.
This is a pretty fundamental result in microeconomics. The profit maximization section of the wiki article explains it quite well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_product_of_labor
The usual disclaimers about underlying assumptions apply of course.