diseconomy

If you look at the vitality of an organization like that, how rapidly they're able to move, how distributed they are in decision-making and authority, and compared with some of the large companies, you begin to understand what's known as the diseconomy of scale.

Press Briefing By John Gibbons Bowman Cutter ITY National Archives 1993

It also involves a counterfactual assumption that aggression is not part of what happens when you add unskilled foreigners into a welfare society/diseconomy; as if we owed no loyalty to fellow citizens above the foreigner, when foreigners stateside increase the aggression on the net taxpayer here.

Benefits of Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Maybe part of the reason that emergency room visits for the uninsured in Massachusetts have not diminished as planned, and that primary care doctors are not sufficiently available, is due to the fact that physicians in Massachusetts are facing a diseconomy in which insurance CEOs make out as millionaires while patients and physicians struggle to give and receive care.

Emergency Rooms Are Mostly Doing What They Should 2011

The utter economy of a screwdriver and hammer feels almost cleansing in a society built upon diseconomy and waste.

B2fxxx 2005

With this “diseconomy of scale,” the participants would like to have as few members as possible and perhaps would seek to drive smaller rivals out of the ongoing bargain and erect barriers to entry.20

The Manager as Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain DAVID A. LAX 1986

With this “diseconomy of scale,” the participants would like to have as few members as possible and perhaps would seek to drive smaller rivals out of the ongoing bargain and erect barriers to entry.20

The Manager as Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain DAVID A. LAX 1986

But the reality is that a single script or set of scripts that focus on the automation of components rather than systems and architectures is not going to scale well and will instead end up contributing to the diseconomy of scale that was and still is the primary driver behind the next-generation network.

OakLeaf Systems 2010

The possibility of profitably utilizing resources to manipulate demand is, perhaps, the greatest source of diseconomy under the existing system.

Bill Totten's Weblog 2009