Pubbl/distr/stampa	[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2007]
Descrizione fisica	iii, 76 pages : digital, PDF file
Soggetto topico	Petroleum Petroleum reserves - Forecasting Production (Economic theory) Administrative agencies - United States
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	Crude oil
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910695704003321

Autore	Ray Subhash C.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xii, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	338.4/5/01
Soggetto topico	Data envelopment analysis Production (Economic theory)
ISBN	1-107-14385-3 1-280-54085-0 0-511-21453-7 0-511-21632-7 0-511-21095-7 0-511-31517-1 0-511-60673-7 0-511-21272-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 Productivity, Efficiency, and Data Envelopment Analysis; 3 Variable Returns to Scale: Separating Technical and Scale Efficiencies; 4 Extensions to the Basic DEA Models; 5 Nonradial Models and Pareto-Koopmans Measures of Technical Efficiency; 6 Efficiency Measurement without Convexity Assumption: Free Disposal Hull Analysis; 7 Dealing with Slacks: Assurance Region/Cone Ratio Analysis, Weak Disposability, and Congestion; 8 Efficiency of Merger and Breakup of Firms 9 Efficiency Analysis with Market Prices10 Nonparametric Approaches in Production Economics; 11 Measuring Total Productivity Change over Time; 12 Stochastic Approaches to Data Envelopment Analysis; 13 Looking Ahead; References; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457734603321

Autore	Edvinsson Rodney
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2023
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	338.5
Collana	Routledge studies in the history of economics
Soggetto topico	Production (Economic theory) Consumption (Economics)
ISBN	1-000-65484-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910584587803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (417 p.)
Disciplina	330.1
Altri autori (Persone)	SteedmanIan VintJohn <1946->
Collana	Routledge studies in the history of economics
Soggetto topico	Production (Economic theory) Economics - Methodology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-135-18299-X 1-135-18300-7 1-282-57608-9 9786612576089 0-203-86304-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I The significance of time; 1 Consumption takes time: Some implications for happiness; 2 Exploitation takes time; 3 How to give up 'wrestling with time': The case of horizontal innovation models; Part II The theory of international trade; 4 The notion of national competitiveness in a global economy; 5 Samuelson, Sraffa and Steedman on comparative advantage; 6 Complete specialization in classical economics; 7 Normative trade theory under Gossenian assumptions 8 Trade equilibrium amongst growing economies: Some extensionsPart III Staffian themes; 9 Families of strongly curved and of nearly linear wage curves: A contribution to the debate about the surrogate production function; 10 "Perverse cases" and the debate on neo-classical theory of distribution: Recent contributions on an open issue; 11 'Capital reversals' in a limited- substitutability technology framework; 12 Testing whether the "capital reversal" syndrome mandates deadweight loss in competitive intertemporal equilibrium; 13 Some notes on the notion of production prices 14 Sraffa and the labour theory of value: A few observations15 On some puzzles in rent theory; 16 Malfunction of a market in a transaction of waste: A reason for the necessity of an upstream policy in waste management; Part IV History of economic thought and methodology; 17 Piero Sraffa in his family: 1898 to 1916; 18 Sraffa's great passion: The postmistress, the traveller's guide, the chess- player, and the fair Circassian; 19 Albert Schäffle's critique of socialism; 20 Henry Sidgwick and economic socialism 21 Does economic growth ultimately lead to a nobler life?: A mathematical formulation of Mill's stationary state22 On Marshallian evolutionary dynamics, entry and exit; 23 Collective dynamics of Faustian agents; Ian Steedman's publications; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459390003321

Autore	Georgescu-Roegen Nicholas
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Elmsford, New York : , : Pergamon Press Inc., , 1976
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (409 p.)
Disciplina	330
Collana	Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering and Social Studies
Soggetto topico	Economics Production (Economic theory) Institutional economics
ISBN	1-4831-8796-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; Energy and Economic Myths: Institutional and Analytical Economic Essays; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I: Natural Resources and the Economics of Production; CHAPTER 1. (1972) ENERGY AND ECONOMIC MYTHS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. MECHANICS VERSUS THERMODYNAMICS; III. THE ENTROPY LAW AND ECONOMICS; IV. ACCESSIBLE ENERGY AND ACCESSIBLE MATTER; V. DISPOSABLE WASTE; VI. MYTHS ABOUT MANKIND'S ENTROPIC PROBLEM; VII. GROWTH: MYTHS, POLEMICS, AND FALLACIES; VIII. THE STEADY STATE: A TOPICAL MIRAGE; IX. SOME BASIC BIOECONOMICS X. MODERN AGRICULTURE: AN ENERGY SQUANDERERXI. A MINIMAL BIOECONOMIC PROGRAM; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. (1971) Process Analysis and the Neoclassical Theory of Production; Contradictions, Omissions, and Surmises; Process : An Analytical Tangle; The Elementary Process : A Fundamental Concept; The Production Functions; The Components of the Factory Production Function; Analysis of Cost and Allocation in a Factory System; Concluding Remarks; References; CHAPTER 3. (1970) The Entropy Law and the Economic Problem; Footnotes; CHAPTER 4. (1969) THE ECONOMICS OF PRODUCTION RICHARD T. ELY LECTURE CHAPTER 5. (1965) PROCESS IN FARMING VERSUS PROCESS IN MANUFACTURING: A PROBLEM OF BALANCED DEVELOPMENTI. INTRODUCTION: THE ASYMMETRY OF A SYMMETRY; II. THE PRODUCTION FUNCTION: A CRITIQUE; III. THE PARTIAL PROCESS AND ITS ANALYTICAL CO-ORDINATES; IV. THE FACTORY PROCESS; CHAPTER 6. (1960) Economic Theory and Agrarian Economics; I. THEORY, REALITY, AND POLICY; II. OVERPOPULATION: A RE-EXAMINATION; III. AN ANALYSIS OF THEORETICAL ISSUES; IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS; POSTSCRIPT 1975; Part II: Institutional Economics; CHAPTER 7. (1968) Structural Inflation-Lock and Balanced Growth; I. INTRODUCTION II. INFLATION AND STATIC ANALYSISIII. INFLATION: A STRUCTURAL CHANGE; IV. MONEY FETISHISM AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS; V. INFLATION: A PASSABLE SYSTEM OF TAXATION?; VI. THE INFLATION STATE: ITS LOSERS AND ITS WINNERS; VII. INFLATION AND DEVELOPMENT; VIII. INFLATION AND BALANCED GROWTH; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8. (1965) The Institutional Aspects of Peasant Communities: An Analytical View; THE PEASANT ECONOMY AND TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS; VILLAGE TYPOLOGY AND TAXONOMY; THE ANATOMY OF THE PEASANT VILLAGE; PROPERTY RIGHTS IN LAND AND THE PEASANTRY; THE ECONOMIC PHYSIOLOGY OF PEASANT COMMUNITIES PEASANT TRADITIONS AND ATTITUDESTHE PRESENT IMPASSE; References; Part III: Epistemology and Methodology; CHAPTER 9. (1974) Dynamic Models and Economic Growth; I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PRODUCTION PROCESSES; III. THE ANALYTICAL REPRESENTATION OF MULTI-PROCESSES; IV. GROWTH VERSUS DEVELOPMENT; V. MATHEMATICAL DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND GROWTH; VI. DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS; VII. COMMODITIES VERSUS PROCESSES IN GROWTH; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10. (1966) Further Thoughts on Corrado Gini's Delusioni dell'econometria; I. - EXCESS OF MATHEMATICAL FORMALISM II. - THE LOSS OF THE SOCIAL DIMENSION
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910786631103321