Cost and Production Functions

This study is the result of an interest in the economic theory of production intermittently pursued during the past three years. Over this period I have received substantial support from the Office of Naval Research, first from a personal service consulting contract directly with the Mathematics Div...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shephard, R.W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1981, 1981
Edition:1st ed. 1981
Series:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Process Production Function
  • 2. Heuristic Principle of Minimum Costs
  • 3. The Producer’s Minimum Cost Function
  • 4. Dual Determination of Production Function From Cost Function
  • 5. Geometric Interpretation of the Duality Between Cost and Production Function
  • 6. Constraints on the Factors of Production
  • 7. Homothetic Production Functions
  • 8. The Cobb-Douglas Production Function
  • 9. The Problem of Aggregation
  • 10. The Dynamics of Monopoly