Format:
1 online resource (161 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415313780
,
9781136518133
Content:
This volume studies the production process, where resources must be committed to specific technological purposes long in advance of the ultimate sale of goods to the consumer
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Nature of Production -- 1. The Measure of Production -- 2. The Nature of Production -- 3. The Means of Production -- 4. The Matrix of Production -- 5. The Design of Production -- 6. Reason, Knowledge and Time -- 7. Time-Horizon and Policy -- 8. Markets and Prices -- 9. The Purpose of the Firm -- 10. The Firm's Production Plan -- 11. The Firm and the Public Interest -- 2. The Matrix of Production -- 3. The Firm's Tests of Rightness -- 1. Variables, Values, Vectors and Functions -- 2. Difference-Quotient, Derivative, Differentiation -- 3. Three Dimensions Represented in Two Dimensions -- 4. The Logic of Cheapness -- 5. Scale -- 6. Costs -- 7. Revenue -- 8. The Test of Greatest Net Revenue -- 9. Overheads -- 4. Investment -- 1. Durability -- 2. Discounting -- 3. Plant Accounting -- 4. The Concept of Elasticity -- 5. Deferment and the Leverage of Interest-Rate Changes -- 6. The Interest Elasticity of Present Values -- 7. The Reservoir of Investment Projects -- 8. Uncertainty, Discounting and Horizon -- 9. Focus Values -- 5. Expectation -- 6. Interdependent Decision-making -- 7. Profit and Equilibrium -- 1. Policy, Surprise and Decision -- 2. Elasticities of Surprise -- 3. Equilibrium and the Unknown -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Shackle, G. L. S. Expectation, Enterprise and Profit Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415313780
Language:
English
Keywords:
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