Theory of Production and Cost

This book gives a comprehensive synopsis of the basic and the more highly developed approaches to the theory of production and cost relevant for founded efficiency analysis of industrial production processes. The treatment of the subject is supported by 139 pictures and 23 tables.

Inhalt
1: Introductory Survey of the Production Field.- I. Integration of Production into Business Administration.- II. Basic Conditions and Tasks of Entrepreneurial Activity.- III. Delimitation of the Research Subject.- IV. Object of the Theory of Production and Cost.- V. Different Fields of Production Planning.- VI. Production and Management Planning.- VII. Summarizing Survey.- One Production Theory.- 2: Fundamentals of Production Theory.- 3: Substitutional Production Functions.- 4: Limitational Production Functions.- 5: Some Further Approaches in the Field of Static-Deterministic Production Functions.- 6: Dynamic and Stochastic Extensions in the Field of Production Functions.- 7: Empirical Validity of Production Functions.- Two Cost Theory.- 8: Fundamentals of a Cost Theory and Minimal Cost Combination.- 9: Cost Functions on the Basis of Special Production Functions.- 10: Combined Processes of Adjustment for Several Functionally Identical Aggregates.- References.- Name Index.