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Book SynopsisThis three-volume handbook includes state-of-the-art surveys in different areas of neoclassical production economics. Volumes 1 and 2 cover theoretical and methodological issues only. Volume 3 includes surveys of empirical applications in different areas like manufacturing, agriculture, banking, energy and environment, and so forth.
Table of Contents1. Overview of Neoclassical Production Economics- Editors.- 2. Duality in Production Diewert (agreed).- 3. Multiproduct Technologies Fare--agreed.- 4. Elasticities of Substitution Russell--agreed.- 5. Conceptualization and Measurement of Technical Change and Productivity Growth Hulten or Jorgensen.- 6. Index Numbers Balk (provisionally agreed).- 7. Market Structures.- 8. Capacity Utilization Segerson and Squires--agreed.- 9. Regulation Bogetoft—agreed.- 10. Bad Outputs Murty and Russell--agreed.- 11. Dynamic Analysis of Production Stefanou--agreed.- 12. Production under Uncertainty Bob Chambers--agreed.- 13. Growth Theory—here I would include both Solow-Swan and the Endogenous Growth literature.- 14. Stochastic Frontier Analysis Subal Kumbhakar--agreed.- 15. Data Envelopment Analysis Subhash Ray--agreed.- 16. Functional Structure and Aggregation Dan Primont.- 17. Cost, Revenue, Profit Function Estimation—Lau—written to.- 18. Economies of Scale, Size, and Scope (will overlap with 8 and 9) Forsund and Podinovski--agreed.- 19. Activity Analysis Models (as distinct from DEA) ten Raa.- 20. Shadow Pricing –Finn only for DEA.- 21. Aggregation: From Firm to Sector and Higher Levels Zelenyuk maybe Pope.- 22. Physical and Bioeconomic Production Systems --Timo and Tim Coelli.- 23. nonconvex technologies-- Briec and Kerstens--agreed.- 24. distance functions—Fare and Chambers—agreed.- 25. Retrospective on Koopmans—Knox Lovell—agreed.- 26. Retrospective on Dual Cost Functions: Marc Nerlove (provisionally agreed).
