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What might cause a firm to want to increase production past the point where additional revenues offset additional costs (i.e., MC=MR)?

a. The firm is enjoying the benefits of the learning curve
b. Future production costs will be higher
c. Managers are being rewarded on the basis of short-run profits
d. The firm relies on direct growth incentives
e. The firm wants to violate the rule of equating marginal revenue to marginal cost

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d. The firm relies on direct growth incentives.

A -- the learning curve ...

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