Marginal Private Cost (MPC) (Definition)
Marginal private cost (MPC) is the direct cost a producer bears to create one additional unit of a good. The term 'marginal private cost' is used, rather than simply 'marginal cost,' to emphasize that this calculation is limited to the producer's own expenses and deliberately excludes any external costs, such as pollution, that production might impose on others.
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