{
  "id": "economies-of-scale.excess",
  "term": "economies of scale",
  "sense": "excess",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "domain": "economics",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A parameter of size increases while a pattern of work per unit decreases, revealing that the whole was always capable of exceeding the sum of its parts, but the model assumed fixed costs.",
  "folk_gloss": "Saving money by making more of something at once.",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "scale.parameter",
      "cost.economic",
      "per.ratio",
      "whole.complete",
      "greater-than-the-sum.excess"
    ],
    "interaction": "interaction.process",
    "novel_properties": [
      "efficiency"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "economies of scale"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — the whole exceeding its parts"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-economies-of-scale.excess"
}