Factor Demand with a Variable Quantity of Cooperating Factors.
This article indicates a method of deriving a demand curve of an individual firm for a factor of production from marginal productivity analysis, on the assumption that the prices of the other factors of production are given, rather than their amounts. While the latter assumption permits the demand c...
| Publicado en: | American Economic Review Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 422 - 426 |
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