The language theory of rational choice can prove the minimum efficient scale theory of the language and the corresponding characteristic of path dependence. 语言的理性选择理论证明了语言演进过程中的最小有效规模特征及由此产生的路径依赖。
Because of the limitations of the theory and these methods, the characteristics of higher education, there are great differences in the results for the research in both minimum efficient scale and optimum scale of universities. 规模经济理论及研究方法的局限性及高等教育的特殊性,使得大学最小有效规模或最佳规模的研究结果有很大差异。