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Ludwig Lachmann, discussing the problem of diminishing returns in Capital and Its Structure, makes the following argument:

Where existing capital is merely duplicated (’widened’), operated by a given labour force, diminishing returns will soon appear. Where new capital resources, but of the type employed before, are being substituted for labour (’deepened’), we may have to wait [...]