Classic economic theory predicts that human exploitation of a population is unlikely to result in species extinction because the escalating costs to find the last few individuals will exceed the fixed price one achieves by selling the individuals on the market.
经典经济理论预测，人类对种群的剥削不太可能导致物种灭绝，因为寻找最后几个个体的成本上升，将超过在市场上出售个体所获得的固定价格。