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A Theory of Production - Tasks, Processes, and Technical Practices (Hardcover, New)
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A Theory of Production - Tasks, Processes, and Technical Practices (Hardcover, New)
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This book presents a new analytical framework the theory of
production. It is based upon a rigorous reconstruction of the
intellectual heritage of economics, but focuses upon issues that
are traditionally left aside by economists, such as the distinction
between three dimensions of the production process (tasks,
capabilities, materials in process), the organizational approach to
scale and size, and the idea that different institutional set-ups
may be compatible with a given 'objective' standard of efficiency.
This study thus fills an important gap in the existing theoretical
literature on productive structures. Part One presents the general
conceptual framework and investigates its roots in the received
tradition of economic theory. Part Two expounds the pure theory of
tasks and processes in which important features of the production
structure are considered independently of agents' capabilities and
materials' characteristics. Part Three explicitly introduces agents
and materials, and argues that the gradual opening up of the above
'hierarchical' theory of production to institutional and historical
elements provides an invaluable insight into the relative
importance of factors moulding the actual forms of productive
organization and processes of structural change.
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