# economies of scale (excess)

*Ordinarily means:* Saving money by making more of something at once.

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.

- Computed level: L13 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: economics

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [scale](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-scale.parameter), [cost](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cost.economic), [per](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-per.ratio), [whole](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-whole.complete), [greater than the sum](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-greater-than-the-sum.excess)

**Through:** interaction.process

**Novel properties:**
- efficiency

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-economies-of-scale.excess*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-economies-of-scale.excess.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*