A Theory of Production: Tasks, Processes, and Technical Practices

by Roberto Scazzieri

This book presents a new theoretical framework for the analysis of production processes. Based on a rigorous reconstruction of the intellectual heritage of economics, it also considers issues traditionally left aside by economists--the distinctions of the three dimensions of the production process (tasks, capabilities, and materials in process), the organizational approach to scale and size, and the idea that different institutional set-ups may be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198283733
• ISBN13: 9780198283737
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"