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040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a338.5 _bC355a
100			_aChambers, Robert G.
245			_aApplied production analysis _bdual approach _cRobert G. Chambers
260			_bCambridge university press _c1988 _aCambridge
300			_axvi, 331 p.
520			_aThis book contains a modern treatment of production economics from a dual perspective, with special emphasis on recent developments. Results that were scattered throughout professional journals and monographs are now gathered into an integrated approach using a common notation. The book prepares the reader to apply the tools of the dual approach to real world problems and data sets. Particular care has been devoted to choosing topics for discussion that achieve this goal. Throughout the book there are worked examples and exercises, which are geared toward developing the reader's facility in using modern developments in production economics. Separate chapters are devoted to production, cost, and profit functions. Other topics include flexible functional forms, aggregation across inputs and outputs using the theory of separable structures, aggregation over economic optimizing firms, the representation of multioutput technologies, and the analysis and measurement of technical change from both a primal and a dual perspective.
650			_aProduction (Economic theory)
653			_aProduction analysis
942			_cBK
999			_c559651 _d559651