The per worker production function attempts to model how much a single employee will produce based on either land available or capital invested. The Malthusian model bases it solely on land while the ...

In my last post on my Debtwatch blog, I finished by saying that the Physiocrats were the only School of economics to properly consider the role of energy in production. They ascribed it solely to ...

In micro-economic theory much room is given to the discussion of inhomogeneous production functions, or more precisely, production functions with a monotonically decreasing elasticity of scale. On the ...

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