submarginal

As marginal firms become submarginal and leave the industry, the supply of the goods fall.

Trade Deficit, Saving, and Tax Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Too many entrepreneur may enter the software industry and end up bidding profits below zero economic profits causing submarginal businesses to drop out of the industry.

Roll Over, Ricardo, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In the case of the excise tax, submarginal firms and resources leave the taxed industry to be employed somewhere else in the economy.

Trade Deficit, Saving, and Tax Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The Resettlement Administration (RA), which eventually became the Farm Security Administration (FSA), stressed "rural rehabilitation" efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming.

Dust Bowl 2009

For example, in response to the 1930s Dust Bowl in the United States, major policy interventions were introduced, including zoning laws for the most fragile areas, repurchases of submarginal private land, cash payments for leaving land fallow, and farm loans tied to approved land prac­tices.

Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Desertification Synthesis~ Key Questions on Desertification in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2008

For example, after I was appointed in charge of the wildlife program of the Ontario Agricultural College (later the University of Guelph), I bought a 100-acre submarginal farm and spent a great deal of my spare time studying wildlife on that property, resulting in publications on the population dynamics of woodchucks and territorial behavior of the white-tailed deer.

Tributes to Aldo Leopold 2008

In what would be judged to be submarginal trout habitat—warmer, silty streams with late summer flows reduced to a trickle—only the native Bear River cutthroat trout is found, another example of a distinctive biological specialization that characterizes local populations but not the subspecies as a whole.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

Like the Bear River cutthroat, the Humboldt cutthroat is highly resistant to replacement by nonnative trout, especially in what would normally be considered submarginal habitat.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

In what would be judged to be submarginal trout habitat—warmer, silty streams with late summer flows reduced to a trickle—only the native Bear River cutthroat trout is found, another example of a distinctive biological specialization that characterizes local populations but not the subspecies as a whole.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

Like the Bear River cutthroat, the Humboldt cutthroat is highly resistant to replacement by nonnative trout, especially in what would normally be considered submarginal habitat.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002