Theory of Production and Cost

Process.- II. Gutenberg Production Function.- 1. Basic Assumptions and Fundamental Considerations.- 2. Different Kinds of Adjustment as Parameters of Action.- 3. Production Relations between End Product Quantity and Use of Potential Factors for Different Kinds of Adjustments.- 4. The Concept of the Consumption Function for Consumption Factors.- 5. Production Relations between End Product Quantity and Consumption Factor Input for Different Adjustments.- 5: Some Further Approaches in the Field of Static-Deterministic Production Functions.- I. Introductory Remarks.- II Heinen Production Function.- III Engineering Production Functions.- 1. Development and General Formal Description of Engineering Production Functions.- 2. Engineering Production Functions for Single Aggregates.- 3. Engineering Production Functions for Branches of Industry.- 4. Engineering Production Function for a High-Voltage Line.- 5. Engineering Production Function in Aircraft Construction.- IV. Pichler's Concept of Throughput Functions.- V. Kloock's Input-Output-Analysis Approach.- 6: Dynamic and Stochastic Extensions in the Field of Production Functions.- I. Preliminary Remarks.- II. The Dynamizing of Production Functions.- 1. Points of Contact between the Static and the Dynamic Approach.- 2. Reasons for a Dynamic Approach.- 3. Dynamizing Forms.- III. Time-Dependent Technologies Resulting from Innovations - Autonomous Technical Progress.- 1. Description of Time-Related Input-Output Relations for Leontief Processes.- 2. Technical Progress in the Gutenberg Production Function.- 3. Krelle's Dynamic Production Function.- IV. Inclusion of Learning Processes in a Theory of Production - Induced Technical Progress.- 1. A Theoretical Concept of Learning Processes in Manufacturing.- 2. Inclusion of Learning Processes in Different Types of Production Functions.- V. Küpper's Dynamic Production Function.- VI. Considering Uncertainties of Production by Stochastization of the Production Function.- VII. Model of a Stochastic Production Function on the Basis of the Classical Law of Returns.- 7: Empirical Validity of Production Functions.- I. Different Approaches.- II. A Formal Framework for Analysing the Empirical Validity of Production Functions.- III. Evaluating the Empirical Validity of Specific Production Functions.- 1. The Classical Law of Returns.- 2. The Leontief Production Function.- 3. The Gutenberg Production Function.- 4. The Heinen Production Function.- 5. The Kloock Production Function.- 6. Engineering Production Functions.- 7. Summary.- IV. The Empirical Significance of the Gutenberg Production Function in the Light of Practical Research.- 1. Chances and Limitations of the Gutenberg Production Function.- 2. Lines of Empirical Determination.- 3. Results of Empirical Studies.- Two Cost Theory.- 8: Fundamentals of a Cost Theory and Minimal Cost Combination.- I. Transition from Production Theory to Cost Theory.- II. Costs and Cost-Influencing Factors.- 1. The General Notion of Cost.- 2. Cost-Influencing Factors.- III. Special Notions of Cost.- IV. The Selection Problem in Cost Theory: The Minimal Cost Combination.- 1. Notion and Content of the Minimal Cost Combination.- 2. Minimal Cost Combination for Substitutional Production.- 3. Minimal Cost Combination for Linear-Limitational Production with a Single Production Process.- 4. Minimal Cost Combination for Linear-Limitational Production with Several Production Processes.- V. Minimal Cost Combination for Dynamic Considerations of Production and Cost.- VI. Historical Contributions to Cost Theory.- 9: Cost Functions on the Basis of Special Production Functions.- I. Deriving a Cost Function from a Production Function.- II. Cost Functions on the Basis of the Law-of-Return Production Functions.- III. Cost Functions of the Neoclassic Production Functions.- IV. Cost Functions for the Leontief Production Functions.- V. Cost Functions on the Basis of the Gutenberg Production Function.- 10: Combined Processes of Adjustment for Several Functionally Identical Aggregates.- I. Approaches to Combined Adjustment in the Literature.- II. Adjustments of Time, Intensity, and Quantity of Aggregates that Differ in Costs.- 1. Formulation of the Problem and Assumptions.- 2. The Solution Approach of Pre-Optimized Marginal Costs Functions.- 3. The Solution Method of Dynamic Programming.- III. Combined Adjustment Processes without Adjustments of Time.- 1. Preliminary Remarks.- 2. Adjustment Processes in Cases of Constant Output Intensities.- 3. Adjustment Processes in Cases of Intensity Splitting.- References.- Name Index.