Engineering Production Functions

Hollis B. Chenery

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1949, vol. 63, issue 4, 507-531

Abstract: The problem, 507. — I. The scope of engineering analysis, 508. — II. Use of engineering data in economic analysis, 510. — III. Production-function analysis of pipeline transportation, 514; the technological relations, 514; cost functions, 517; conditions of equilibrium, 519. — IV. The use of engineering production functions: results of the present study, 526; further applications, 529; conclusions, 531.

Date: 1949
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